Concord

Concord, also known as agreement, refers to the need, or not, for words in the same sentence to relate to each other, grammatically, i.e. in number, gender,^[1] person or case.^[2]

It can apply to the following:

• a) a subject and its verb; * "Every one of us have a role to play ..." President Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, 23 Jan. 1996.^[2] should be: "Every one of us has a role to play ..."
• b) a noun and its pronoun; * "You can only teach a person something if that person can comprehend and use what is being taught to them." J.M. Balkin, "Turandot's Victory", 2 Yale J. Law & Humanities 299, 302 (1990)^[2] should be: "You can only teach a person something if that person can comprehend and use what is being taught."
• c) a subject and its complement;
• d) a noun and its appositive;
• e) a relative pronoun and its antecedent;
• f) an adjective and its noun.

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• Kortmann, Bernd. A handbook of varieties of English. 2. Morphology and syntax, Volume 2. Walter de Gruyter, 2004. Google eBook
• Bache, C; Davidsen-Nielsen, N. Mastering English: An Advanced Grammar for Non-Native and Native Speakers. Walter de Gruyter, 1997. Google eBook