Many English learners struggle to tell the difference between a phrase and a clause. The common advice is to look for a finite verb (a verb that agrees with the subject in number and person), but what if you want more ways to identify them? Today’s NRTC English explains simple tricks to help you confidently […]

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Have you ever come across a sentence like “Ade as well as Olu come to school early” and wondered if “come” should be “comes”? Many English learners find this confusing because it involves a special type of subject-verb agreement, also known as concord. This brings us to the accompaniment rule and the issue of false […]

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English grammar has its fair share of tricky rules, and concord—how subjects and verbs agree—is one of those areas that often confuses learners. Some expressions look plural but take singular verbs, while others behave the way we expect. Two such cases that I find interesting are “a number of” vs. “the number of” and “many […]

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In English, most nouns have just one plural form. For example, “cat” becomes “cats,” and “book” becomes “books.” But some special nouns have two plural forms, and each form can have a different meaning. Let’s look at some of these words and how they are used. 1. Brother – Brothers/Brethren 2. Cow – Cows/Kine 3. […]

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A noun clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb that acts as a noun in a sentence. It can function as the subject, object, or complement of a sentence. Understanding how noun clauses agree with verbs is important for speaking and writing correctly in English. Most of the time, noun […]

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