I need help with the subject verb agreement for this assignment:

Question

1. It eats
2.It hears
3.It attacks
4.It doesn't eat
5.It doesn't hear
6.It doesn't attack
7.They eat
8. They hear
9. They attack
10.They don't eat
11. They don't hear

I'm using the powerglide Spanish 1 system to study Spanish but I cannot find where verb agreement is anywhere in the books. Is there anyone that is familiar with powerglide that could tell me where verb agreement is in the books?Thanks in advance!

Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. At the moment, I am not familiar with the Powerglide Spanish I system but I will investigate that. At any rate, you do NOT need to know where it is in the textbook to learn about subject and verb agreement.

Above you have regular verbs so here is what I always gave my students on Regular Verbs:

pattern -ar verb = hablar
yo hablo, tú hablas, él/ella/usted habla
nosotros/nosotras hablamos, vosotros/vosotras habais, ellos/ellas/ustedes hablan

There are 3 possible English translations for "yo hablo" = I speak, I DO speak, I AM speakING

To conjugate a verb, the usual pattern is:
1st person singular (yo = I)
2nd person singular, familiar (tú = you, familiar))
3rd person singular (él/ella/usted = he/she/it/you,formal)

1st person plural (nosotros/nosotras = we)
2nd person plural, familiar (vosotros/vosotras = you-all)
3rd person plural (ellos/ellas/ustedes = they/you-all, formal)

NOTE: the endings are yo = o, tú = as, él/ella/usted = a, nosotros/nosotras = amos, vosotras/vosotras = ais, ellos/ellas/ustedes = an (for regular -ar verbs)

Pattern verb -er = comer
yo como, tú comes, él/ella/usted come
nosotros/nosotras comemos, vosotros/vosotras comeis, ellos/ellas/ustedes comen

endings for regular -er verbs: o, es, e, emos, eis, en

Pattern verb = ir = recibir
yo recibo, tú recibes, él/ella/usted recibe
nosotros/nosotras recibimos, vosotros/vosotras recibís, ellos/ellas/ustedes reciben

endings for regular -ir verbs: o, es, e, imos, ís, en

Sorry but I could not copy it and havd it line up properly. I also have lists of regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs if you would like. Now, hopefully you can do the exercises above and I'll be happy to proofread it for you after you try. We HELP but we don't DO the work for you.

P.S. Be sure to get a good paper-back dictionary with English to Spanish and Spanish to English so you can look up the words you don't know. You didn't ask, but here are lists of regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs that follow the patterns I gave you:

COMMON -AR VERBS

ayudar, to help escuchar, to listen (to) preguntar, to ask
cantar, to sing estudiar, to study preparar, to prepare
comprar, to buy hablar, to speak, talk tomar, to take
contestar, to hallar, to find trabajar, to work
answer invitar, to invite viajar, to travel
desear, to wish mirar, to look at visitar, to visit
enseñar, to teach necesitar, to need entrar, to enter (en)

COMMON -ER VERBS

aprender, to learn correr, to run prometer, to promise
beber, to drink deber, to have to responder, to answer
comer, to eat (should, ought), vender, to sell
comprender, to to owe leer, to read
understand

COMMON -IR VERBS

abrir, to open escribir, to write sufrir, to suffer
decidir, to decide recibir, to receive vivir, to live