Subject Verb Agreement With Phrases

Introduce the skill with a brief whole-class activity, such as calling out examples and asking students to give a thumbs up when they hear noun-verb agreement in a sentence. Then let students work through it independently and self-check their own work against an answer key before you review it as a class, referring to a class anchor chart if one is available. When reviewing answers, ask students to explain why an answer is correct rather than just confirming it. These noun-verb agreement worksheets work well as a focused practice activity, a homework assignment, or a warm-up at the start of a language arts lesson.

Underline the subject and circle the agreeing verb in 10 sentences like The box of crayons is. A verb agrees with its subject, not with a noun in a phrase after it. Example: The bag of apples is heavy. The directions on the page read: Read each sentence. Then, underline the subject. Then, circle the verb that agrees with it. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade verbs, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with noun-verb agreement. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

No. The verb agrees with the subject, not with a noun in the phrase. In The box of crayons is on the desk, the subject is box, so the verb is is. One page practices this in 10 sentences.

Subjects joined by and take a plural verb, as in Mia and Jon walk to school. When subjects are joined by or, by either and or, or by neither and nor, the verb agrees with the closer subject, as in Neither my shoes nor my coat fits.

Yes. All 4 5th grade noun-verb agreement sheets have an answer key.