Subject-Verb Agreement Worksheets
A singular subject takes a singular verb. The rule is short; the difficulty is finding the real subject when a phrase sits between it and the verb, or when the subject is a collective noun or an indefinite pronoun.
- Grades
- Grade 2 – Grade 8
- Worksheets
- 10
- Topics
- 6
Topics in subject-verb agreement
- Singular and Plural Subjects — Grade 2 to Grade 6
Choosing the verb form that matches a straightforward singular or plural subject.
- Compound Subjects — Grade 3 to Grade 8
Subjects joined by and, or and nor, and which part of the subject the verb agrees with.
- Phrases Between Subject and Verb — Grade 4 to Grade 8
Ignoring a prepositional phrase between the subject and the verb, so the verb agrees with the true subject.
- Indefinite Pronouns — Grade 5 to Grade 8
Which indefinite pronouns are always singular, which are always plural, and which depend on the phrase that follows.
- Collective Nouns — Grade 5 to Grade 8
Treating a group noun as one unit or as its individual members, and matching the verb to that reading.
- Inverted and Tricky Subjects — Grade 6 to Grade 8
Sentences beginning with there or here, questions, and subjects that look plural but are singular.
Any topic on this list can appear for any grade it covers.
Grade 2
All grade 2 worksheets →Grade 3
All grade 3 worksheets →Grade 4
All grade 4 worksheets →Grade 5
All grade 5 worksheets →Indefinite Pronouns and Subject-Verb Agreement — Grade 5
Grade 5 worksheet drilling subject-verb agreement with always-singular, always-plural, and variable indefinite pronouns across four activity types.
Compound Subjects and Subject-Verb Agreement — Grade 5
Grade 5 worksheet practicing subject-verb agreement with compound subjects joined by and, or, and nor, including sentences with intervening phrases.
Collective Nouns and Subject-Verb Agreement — Grade 5
Practice matching verbs to collective noun subjects in Grade 5 sentences, using intervening phrases designed to test the one-unit agreement rule.
Grade 6
All grade 6 worksheets →Grade 7
All grade 7 worksheets →Grade 8
All grade 8 worksheets →Inverted and Tricky Subjects: Subject-Verb Agreement — Grade 8
Grade 8 grammar worksheet on subject-verb agreement with inverted sentences beginning with there or here, questions, and tricky singular subjects.
Indefinite Pronouns and Subject-Verb Agreement — Grade 8
Grade 8 worksheet drilling singular, plural, and variable indefinite pronouns as subjects, with misleading phrases designed to test analytical skill.
What is published under subject-verb agreement
Ten subject-verb agreement worksheets are published, covering six of the six topics in this skill and written for grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7 and grade 8. Between them they come to 160 questions and 100 ruled lines.
Subject-Verb Agreement spans grade 2 to grade 8 across its topic list, which is wider than most single skills — singular and plural subjects, compound subjects and phrases between subject and verb sit at different ends of it. A topic's grade range is where a dedicated sheet is still worth printing, not where the idea is first mentioned.
How a subject-verb agreement sheet works
Five question types appear across these sheets — 10 × identify, 9 × rewrite, 8 × write your own, 7 × multiple choice and 4 × fill in the blank — and no single sheet uses all of them. Each moves from spotting the rule to applying it, so a student who has memorised the wording of the rule and nothing else runs out of road before the last part.
30 rule statements are printed across the set, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week. Altogether a student reads about 2850 words to work through every subject-verb agreement sheet here; the longest single one is Inverted and Tricky Subjects: Subject-Verb Agreement at 20 questions, against a target of 20 for its grade.
These sit in the recognition, application and analysis bands. Every sheet prints its answer key on a separate page so it can be handed out without one, in black and white, with no account and no watermark.