A few points on agreement, for writers and other people who want to sound like they can string a coherent sentence together.
1. Make your verb and object agree.
The cat ate the fish I'd caught.
Not: The cat eats the fish I'd caught.
2. Make your nouns and pronouns agree in number:
The clown who has her hat on backwards is the funniest.
Not: The clown who has their hat on backwards is the funniest.*
Google's a freaking behemoth; it's too big to be true.
Not: Google's a freaking behemoth; they're too big to be true.
3. In all cases, whether or not you know sentence objects or subjects from holes in the ground, remember: make your tense consistent (or, to be, ahem, consistent with the theme of this post, make your tenses, awkward haha, agree):
The show blew my bobby-socks skyward. I'd not seen any similar performances at that time.
Not: The show blew my bobby-socks skyward. I've not seen any similar performances at that time.
*Feel free to debate the correctness of this approach in different contexts and cultures. I merely present this as a widely accepted rule of thumb.
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