Solving Agreement Puzzles • Lesson • Lenny Learning

Lesson #3

inMystery of the Indefinite Subject

This lesson presents complex sentences where prepositional phrases separate the indefinite pronoun from the verb. Students learn to isolate the subject (the pronoun) to ensure the verb agrees with it, ignoring the intervening words. This targets a high-frequency error pattern.

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