Which sentence provides an example of the subject-verb agreement rule for collective nouns?
the council meets on the first and third tuesday every month.
her sister, along with her three best friends, is participating.
there are many ways to address the country’s current situation.
brand recognition is an important part of every marketing strategy.

The council meets on the first and third Tuesday every month. This is the sentence with a collective noun: the council. In the sentence, the council has been considered as a unity, a single group. This is why the verb goes in the third person for the singular. If the council members were considered, the verb would go in the plural. For example, the council are having some coffee at the moment.

The other sentences do not have collective nouns.

The council meets on the first and third Tuesday every month.

Explanation:

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

the turtle carries new life, oat seeds, over to the other side of the highway and plants them there.