ELS002 present tense forum:
1. My sister has two children, so she is busy with them in the mornings.
2. I leave for work at 7:00am.
3. My sister never goes straight to work.
Sentence 1:
•The nouns used as subjects are ‘sister and children’.
•The pronouns used to replace the nouns are: ‘she’ replaces sister and ‘them’ replaces children
•Subject-verb agreement: ‘Sister has’ is correct. ‘She is’ is correct
• Pronoun-antecedent agreement: ‘she’ correctly refers to ‘sister’ (singular feminine), ‘them’ correctly refers to ‘children’ (plural).
Sentence 2:
• Noun/pronoun subject: I (pronoun)
• Subject-verb agreement: ‘I leave’ is correct
Sentence 3:
• The noun subject is sister. There are no pronouns in this sentence.
• Subject-verb agreement: ‘sister goes’ is correct.