How can you tell they’ve got it: Agreement in sentences?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Correct 'The group of children were laughing' to 'The group of children was laughing' and explain the singular subject; Choose the correct pronoun in 'Each student must bring ____ (his or her / their) book' and explain the antecedent link; Identify and fix three agreement errors in a short paragraph, explaining each correction. Or just try it together: If your child writes "Each of the players have their own locker", can they spot the error and fix it to "has their own locker" — making sure the verb matches the subject?

English Grammar & Punctuation Ages 8–10

Agreement in sentences

Your child can make the parts of a sentence agree. A group of children was laughing, and each student brings their own book.

In curriculum terms

Ensure subject-verb agreement and pronoun-antecedent agreement within and across sentences

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Correct 'The group of children were laughing' to 'The group of children was laughing' and explain the singular subject
Choose the correct pronoun in 'Each student must bring ____ (his or her / their) book' and explain the antecedent link
Identify and fix three agreement errors in a short paragraph, explaining each correction

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Try this together

If your child writes "Each of the players have their own locker", can they spot the error and fix it to "has their own locker" — making sure the verb matches the subject?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Pronounsages 6–7Pronoun-antecedent agreement requires secure prior use of personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns

Subject-verb agreementages 6–7Subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement extends basic S-V agreement

Pronouns for clarityages 7–9Pronoun-antecedent agreement requires pronoun cohesion knowledge

Agreement in sentencesthis skill · ages 8–10

Unlocks

Nothing on the map depends on this yet.

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E3LA06low confidenceYear 3 · Language

understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree

AC9E2LA07low confidenceYear 2 · Language

understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E3LA06low confidenceEnglish · Level 3 · Language strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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Abstract nounsages 8–9 Comparatives & Superlativesages 8–9 Expanded noun phrasesages 8–10 Fronted Adverbials and Commasages 8–9

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