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Title: Subject-Verb Agreement

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S3-L1

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Step Type Explanation Answer

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Problem

The silly lion were seeing her shadow in the water on the marina lake.

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Clue

The verb in the sentences matches the number, person, or gender of the subject displaying the subject-verb agreement in the sentence.

3

Hint

Singular verbs are matched with singular subjects in the sentence, ensuring verb and subject numbers agree.

4

Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

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Choice.A

The silly lion were seeing her shadow in the water on the marina lake.

The sentence is incorrect due to a subject-verb agreement error.

No change

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Choice.B

The silly lion has seeing her shadow in the water on the marina lake.

The sentence is incorrect due to a verb tense error.

has

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Choice.C

The silly lion would seeing her shadow in the water on the marina lake.

The sentence is incorrect due to the incorrect use of the modal verb "would" with the base form of the verb "seeing."

would

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Choice.D

The silly lion was seeing her shadow in the water on the marina lake.

The use of "was seeing" is appropriate for describing an ongoing action in the past. This construction uses the past continuous tense to indicate that at a specific moment in the past, the lion was in the process of seeing its shadow. The sentence is grammatically accurate and well-structured.

was

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Step:

Correct sentence

The silly lion was seeing her shadow in the water on the marina lake.

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Answer

Option

D

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Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

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