[1] It is an instance of inflection, and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person) "agree" between varied words or parts of the sentence.
The verb form must be selected so that it has the same person as the subject in contrast to notional agreement, which is based on meaning.
Agreement between pronoun (or corresponding possessive adjective) and antecedent also requires the selection of the correct person.
This is common in languages such as French and Spanish, where articles, determiners and adjectives (both attributive and predicative) agree in number with the nouns they qualify: In English this is not such a common feature, although there are certain determiners that occur specifically with singular or plural nouns only: In languages in which grammatical gender plays a significant role, there is often agreement in gender between a noun and its modifiers.
However, in some languages, such as German, this is not the case; only attributive modifiers show agreement: In the case of verbs, gender agreement is less common, although it may still occur, for example in Arabic verbs where the second and third persons take different inflections for masculine and feminine subjects.
In Russian and most other Slavic languages, the form of the past tense agrees in gender with the subject, again due to derivation from an earlier adjectival construction.
theseIn this example, what is copied is not a prefix, but rather the initial syllable of the head "river".
The latter is generally used after stems ending in the sibilants sh, ch, ss, or zz (e.g. he rushes, it lurches, she amasses, it buzzes.)
However, for nearly all regular verbs, a separate thou form was no longer commonly used in the past tense.
- Double coincidence of wants occurs when two parties each desire to sell what the other exactly wants to buy.
(= Ten dollar bills) Exceptions: Fraction or percentage can be singular or plural based on the noun that follows it.
Exceptions: If the nouns, however, suggest one idea or refer to the same thing or person, the verb is singular.
Exceptions: British English, however, tends to treat team and company names as plural.
- India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in a pulsating final to deliver World Cup glory to their cricket-mad population for the first time since 1983.
(BBC)[7] - India wins cricket World Cup for 1st time in 28 years.
The consequences for agreement are thus: Verbs must agree in person and number, and sometimes in gender, with their subjects.
Articles and adjectives must agree in case, number and gender with the nouns they modify.
An example of this is the verb travailler, which goes as follows (the single words in italic type are pronounced /tʁa.vaj/): On the other hand, a verb like partir has (the single words in italic type are pronounced /paʁ/): The final S or T is silent, and the other three forms sound different from one another and from the singular forms.
The participles of verbs agree in gender and number with the subject or object in some instances.
For example: A könyvek érdekesek voltak "The books were interesting" ("a": the, "könyv": book, "érdekes": interesting, "voltak": were): the plural is marked on the subject as well as both the adjectival and the copulative part of the predicate.
In the Scandinavian languages, adjectives (both attributive and predicative) are declined according to the gender, number, and definiteness of the noun they modify.
In Icelandic and Faroese, adjectives are also declined according to grammatical case, unlike the other Scandinavian languages.
In some cases in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, adjectives and participles as predicates appear to disagree with their subjects.
In Norwegian bokmål and Danish it is only required to decline past participles in number and definiteness when in an attributive position.
The agreement is similar to Latin, for instance between adjectives and nouns in gender, number, case and animacy (if counted as a separate category).
The following examples are from Serbo-Croatian: Verbs have 6 different forms in the present tense, for three persons in singular and plural.
Verbs must agree in class with their subjects and objects, and adjectives with the nouns that they qualify.
For example: Kitabu kimoja kitatosha (One book will be enough), Mchungwa mmoja utatosha (One orange-tree will be enough), Chungwa moja litatosha (One orange will be enough).
For example: Vitabu viwili vitatosha (Two books will be enough), Michungwa miwili itatosha (Two orange-trees will be enough), Machungwa mawili yatatosha (Two oranges will be enough).
Class and number are indicated with prefixes (or sometimes their absence), which are not always the same for nouns, adjectives and verbs, as illustrated by the examples.