Agreement (linguistics)

In linguistics, "agreement" refers to a grammatical phenomenon where certain elements in a sentence must match or correspond with each other in specific features, such as number, gender, case, or person. This matching typically occurs between subjects and verbs, nouns and adjectives, or within noun phrases. For example, in English, subject-verb agreement requires that a singular subject follows with a singular verb form (e.g., "The cat runs" vs. "The cats run").