Verbal Agreement

Verbal agreement may refer to:

  • In law, a verbal contract or oral contract.
  • In linguistics, the agreement of the verb form with its subject: see grammatical conjugation.

Famous quotes containing the words verbal and/or agreement:

    “Adults understandably assume that the level of verbal proficiency a five-year-old displays represents his level of proficiency in all areas of functioning—if he talks like an adult, he must think and feel like one. However, five-year-olds,... belie the promise of adult-like behavior with their child-like, impulsive actions.”
    —Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

    “Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)