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High-Frequency Winning Words

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

GRAMMAR RULES

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Aug 20, 2026
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About 30 percent of all the SAT grammar questions test subject-verb agreement. These questions are easily recognized because they do not contain any punctuation marks.

This post will examine a special type of subject-verb questions that ask you to choose between a present participle (an -ing word like running, indicating, or reflecting) and a conjugated main verb (a predicate verb like runs, indicates, or reflected). These difficult questions are now regularly appearing in the Module 2 grammar and writing section. Let’s take a look:

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