This means agreement, Harmony, or concordance. Concord is a grammatical concept of blending the subjects with verbs of sentences. This means that the subject of a sentence must agree with it's verb.

ELEMENTS OF CONCORD

-Subject: This is the doer of an action, it may also be whatever, whoever, the writer or speaker is talking about. (Performer of the action).

-Singular Subject: This is any singular pronoun of a noun without an "S". e.g, Chain, He, it, she, book, egg e.t.c

-Plural Subject: This is any plural or a noun with an "S". e.g Chairs, Books, Eggs.

-Adverb: This is an action word or group of words, which modifies or adds to the verb.

-Plural Verb: This is any plural auxillary verb or a main verb without an "S".

-Singular Verb: Goes, Does, book, is, was.

-Plural Verb: Go, do, books, are, were.

>RULES IN CONCORD

1= When the subject is singular the verb must be singular SS=SV.

2= When the subject is plural, the verb must be plural. PS=PV.

3= When "a pair of" comes at the subject level of a sentence, the verb of the sentence must be singular.

4= When "many a" comes at the subject of a sentence the verb of the sentence must be singular.

5= When "many" comes at the subject level of a sentence, the verb of the sentence must be plural.

6= When "neither nor" joins two or more subject in a sentence, the verb of the sentence will be determined by the subjects nearer or nearest to the verb region.

7= When both subjects are common nouns and there is no determinant before the second one, a singular Verb follows.

TYPES OF CONCORD

1: Grammatical Concord:

This term is used to describe the grammatical relationship between the subject/person and it's verb in number. SS=SV. Example

a. Daddy DRIVES carefully.

b. Uncle KIlLLED a cow.

Please note that there are exceptions to every rule not limited to grammatical concord, the use of 'with', 'together with', and 'as well as'.

a. Philip with his brother is around. (Philip is a singular noun, so it takes singular Verb 'is').

b. The lecturer together with the student is in the HOD'S office.

c. The men with their wives have been arrested. (The men is in the plural form , so it's verb is plural "have").

d. The radio station as well as it's staff has been vindicated. (Singular noun irrespective of the link with "it's staff" takes a singular Verb).

-The use of apart from/different from.

-When an expression comprises of two (or more) names which refer to the same person is treated as a singular subject & given a singular verb.

-A plural noun must have a singular verb when it is the name of a singular object. (Title of a book)..

-Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades & centuries take the singular verb.

-Words that appear in plural form but bear singular meaning should take singular verbs.

2: Notional Concord:

This draws the attention of the notion of the writer to the speaker. It is the agreement of verb with the subject. EXAMPLE

a.Team A meets Team B this afternoon.

b. The public has been pacified. (The public is a singular subject as it refers to the group as an entity, so it takes a singular verb "has".

3: Concord of Proximity:

This means nearness or closeness. It states that the action is important, any two subjects (in an alternation) to the verb will determine wether the verb is singular or plural. EXAMPLE

a. Either the students or the teacher is in the classroom. ('the teacher" singular, the verb therefore is singular).

b. Neither you nor I am guilty.

c. Neither the child nor the parents are guilty.

d. Either the teacher or the students are in the class.

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