Editing Verb (section)

== Agreement ==
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In languages where the verb is inflected, it often [[Agreement (linguistics)|agrees]] with its primary argument (the subject) in person, number or gender. With the exception of the verb ''to be'', English shows distinctive agreements only in the third person singular, present tense form of verbs, which are marked by adding "-s" ( ''walk'''s''''') or "-es" (''fish'''es'''''). The rest of the persons are not distinguished in the verb (''I walk'', ''you walk'', ''they walk'', etc.).

[[Latin]] and the [[Romance languages]] inflect verbs for [[tense–aspect–mood]] (abbreviated 'TAM'), and they agree in person and number (but not in gender, as for example in [[Polish language|Polish]]) with the subject. [[Japanese language|Japanese]], like many languages with [[subject–object–verb|SOV]] word order, inflects verbs for tense-aspect-mood, as well as other categories such as negation, but shows absolutely no agreement with the subject—it is a strictly [[dependent-marking language]]. On the other hand, [[Basque language|Basque]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], and some other languages, have ''[[polypersonal agreement]]'': the verb agrees with the subject, the direct object, and even the secondary object if present, a greater degree of [[head-marking language|head-marking]] than is found in [[Standard Average European|most European]] languages.