Subject-Verb Agreement Worksheets
A verb agrees with its subject in number: the singular subject takes barks/is/has, the plural takes bark/are/have. Third graders handle the common trouble verbs (is/are, was/were, has/have, does/do) and compound subjects joined by "and," matching the grade-3 agreement standard.
By grade
What students need to know
The verb has to match the subject: one dog barks, two dogs bark.
This skill runs from 1st grade through 4th grade. Pick a grade above for level-matched sentences, teaching notes, and worksheets.
Subject-Verb Agreement across the grades
1st Grade
The naming part and the action part of a sentence have to match: the dog runs, the dogs run. First graders pick the verb that fits, using the ear they've been training since they learned to talk.
2nd Grade
Subject-verb agreement means the verb matches who is doing the action: one dog barks, two dogs bark; she runs, they run. Second graders choose the verb that fits a simple subject, building the ear for "one or more than one" that all later grammar leans on.
3rd Grade
A verb agrees with its subject in number: the singular subject takes barks/is/has, the plural takes bark/are/have. Third graders handle the common trouble verbs (is/are, was/were, has/have, does/do) and compound subjects joined by "and," matching the grade-3 agreement standard.
4th Grade
By 4th grade, agreement questions hide the subject: collective nouns (the team practices), subjects separated from the verb by a phrase (the box of crayons was full), and compound subjects. The skill is finding the true subject first, then matching the verb to it.