Question

Which sentence has an error in subject-verb agreement?

Answer 1

The answer is:

D) The man, in the next apartment, as well as the people across the hall, have lived in the building since 1960.

Subject-verb agreement means that the subject and the verb must possess the same number. Thus, when the subject is singular, the verb must be singular; and when the subject is plural, the verb must be plural too.

In sentence D, there is no subject-verb agreement because the subject is singular (the man) and the auxiliary verb is plural (have). The correct sentence is:

The man, in the next apartment, as well as the people across the hall, has lived in the building since 1960.