Question

Read the sentence.

The five winners of the state competition goes to the regional competition in May, and three of those winners will compete nationally.

Which best identifies the problem with this sentence?

The five winners of the state competition goes to the regional competition in May, and three of those winners will compete nationally.

unclear pronoun reference
sentence fragment
lacks subject-verb agreement
comma splice

Answer 1

Lacks subject-verb agreement

Step-by-step explanation:

In this sentence, the subject is "the five winners of the state competition." As there are five winners, we know this is a plural noun. When we look at the verb, the sentence employs "goes." This is the singular form of the verb. Therefore, we can see that the subject and the verb do not agree. In English, it is important for the subject and the verb to agree with each other in number and tense in order for the sentence to be understandable.

Answer 2

The answers is: Lacks subject-verb agreement