A closer examination of the corpus data shows that many of the verbs with -(e)th, in fact, have a stem ending in a sibilant sound, like ariseth, causeth, increaseth, produceth.' (April McMahon, 'Restructuring Renaissance English.' The Oxford History of English, rev. she helpeth), retaining it right into the seventeenth century. Nevertheless, there is an ostensibly odd, opposing development whereby some Scots writers at this time adopted the otherwise declining southern -(e)th (e.g. 'e know that the originally northern third-person singular verb ending -(e)s spread conclusively to the south during the early modern English period to give she walks, he writes.In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the –eth third-person singular verb ending (e.g., followeth, thinketh) began to die out, though some common contractions of these forms (e.g., hath for haveth, doth for doeth) persisted into the late seventeenth century.' ( The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, 2nd ed., ed. 'The Renaissance brought several changes in English grammar and syntax.The Evolution of English: From -eth to -(e)s Unlike other verbs, the verb to be also varies in person and number in the past tense.' (David Blakesley and Jeffrey L. 'The verbs to be, to have, and to do are irregular.Variation appears in the third-person singular (as in runs)-the verb form that matches the pronouns he, she, and it and other third-person subjects, such as the boy, the dog, and the car. 'In general, the first- and second-person singular forms of the verb and all plural forms of the verb are the plain form-for example, run.'A singular noun requires a singular verb a plural noun requires a plural verb.Mandell, Writing First With Readings: Practice in Context, 3rd ed. 'Most subject-verb agreement problems occur in the present tense, where third-person singular subjects require special verb forms: regular verbs form the third-person singular by adding -s or -es to the base.Subject-Verb Agreement With the Third-Person Singular

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