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CHANDEEP_SODHI
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Subject Verb agreement

by CHANDEEP_SODHI Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:29 pm

Hi Instructors can you please tell me in this sentence what is "Daily"
as in , is it Adverb , adjective or Noun ?

Daily use of vitamins and moisturizer help your skin replenish itself .

Also i would like to know is "vitamins and moisturizer" subject of this sentence . If Yes , how come subject of a sentence is in prepositional phrase ie "of vitamins and moisturizer".

Is the below sentence correct?
Daily use of vitamins and moisturizer helps your skin replenish itself .

Also i would like to know is the form "to + Verb " always an Infinitive?
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Re: Subject Verb agreement

by tim Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:47 pm

"daily" is an adjective because it modifies the subject, "use". the original sentence is incorrect because we must use the word "helps" rather than "help" to make the subject and verb agree..

"to+[verb]" is pretty much always going to be an infinitive. i'm sure you could construct some crazy exception, and i'm sure Ron will find one for us, :) but you can go with this as a general rule..
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