Agreement Grammar
In grammar , the term transmission agreement inflectional morphological characteristics of a word to another.
Summary |
General
There is agreement when word variable (called the recipient agrees) receives word of another (called the Principal Agreement) of morphological markers like those kind of number or person.
- A little girl. Behaved children. The sun is shining. We are tired.
- The words "daughter", "children", "sun" and "we" are donors willing to other words.
The Client Agreement
The customer agreement is usually a name or a pronoun.
- When it is a phrase not having any of the three brands, the agreement is the masculine singular and third person:
- Cross a busy railway line is still too dangerous.
- The phrase "Crossing a railroad track as busy" is neutral donor, the verb "is" is a catcher in the third person singular. The adjective "dangerous" is a singular male recipient; the adverb "always" unchanging, neither donor nor recipient.
- A donor may not be explicitly inflected brand, he nevertheless transmit them to recipient:
- You who go on a trip, do not forget your passport.
- The pronoun "you" is donating the second person singular. The relative pronoun "who" is the receiver, unmarked. In turn, this relative pronoun becomes a donor vis--vis the verb "go", which is the subject. This verb therefore receives the mark of the second person singular (ending:-s).
The recipient agrees
The receiver can be agreed:
- a determinant ;
- an adjective ;
- a verb (ie a verb or a past participle, or an officer in the case of compound tenses );
- a pronoun (personal or relative, mainly).
Rules of agreement verbs
With collective nouns
Names such as crowd, multitude, innumerable, troop, battalion, company, body, majority, etc.. and approximations such as ten, twelve, twenty, hundred, etc.. are singular, but refers to a multitude of entities.
- When used alone, the agreement is singular:
- The jubilant crowd was unanimous.
- When determined by a plural noun, the verb can be granted either singular or plural:
- A crowd of rioters took (took) over the building.
This is called syllepsis number.
With titles of works
Titles of works with a plural noun is common, but their agreement is not obvious, because depending on certain variables:
- The "Thoughts" of Pascal are fun to read.
- "Les Enfants du Paradis" is a good movie.
See also
Related articles
- List of terms used in linguistics
- Morphosyntactic analysis
- Lexicalization
- Glossary
- Nature of the word
- Sentence
- Phrase
- Syntax
Bibliography
- Collective, The Agreement, journal Language Facts No. 8, Paris, September 1996 [ read online ]

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