What is the difference between "depend" and "depends"?

He depends on his father for money. (Here, the subject is singular, hence the verb is plural). They depend on their father for money. EnglishLanguageLearnersStackExchangeisaquestionandanswersiteforspeakersofotherlanguageslearningEnglish.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Unanswered Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams Whatisthedifferencebetween"depend"and"depends"? AskQuestion Asked 6years,3monthsago Modified 3years,9monthsago Viewed 28ktimes 1 1 Couldsomeoneexplainthedifferencebetweendependanddepends? WhendoIneedtoaddthe"s"attheend? subject-verb-agreementverb-agreement Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedOct18,2018at14:18 EddieKal 18.6k2626goldbadges7474silverbadges162162bronzebadges askedApr29,2016at8:02 JakeJake 5122goldbadges22silverbadges44bronzebadges 1 1 Search"Subjectverbagreement"onlineandlookforsingularandpluralconjugations. – vickyace Apr29,2016at8:08 Addacomment  |  3Answers 3 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 4 Toputitsimply,subject-verbagreement. Whatitmeansisthatifthesubjectissingular,theverbshallbepluralandvice-versa. Hedependsonhisfatherformoney. (Here,thesubjectissingular,hencetheverbisplural) Theydependontheirfatherformoney. Share Improvethisanswer Follow editedMay9,2016at19:04 NathanTuggy 9,4292020goldbadges3838silverbadges5656bronzebadges answeredApr29,2016at8:48 VaibhavSharmaVaibhavSharma 52133goldbadges77silverbadges1212bronzebadges 1 1 Ibelievethisquestionismoreabouttheusageof"dependon","dependson",and"dependingon",notsimplythesubject-verbagreement.Someonewhocanputupaquestionwithsuchperfectgrammar,wouldalreadyknowaboutthatbasicrule. – Alexar Jun12,2017at7:55 Addacomment  |  3 Toansweryourquestion,firstlyweneedtoknowaboutpersonandnumber.IntheEnglishlanguage,personisclassifiedinto3typesandnumberisclassifiedinto2types. FirstPerson: Singularnumber:I,me,mine Pluralnumber:we,us,ouretc. SecondPerson:you,youretc. ThirdPerson: Singularnumber:he,she,It,Nazmul(Name). Pluralnumber:They,theiretc. WhenthesentenceispresenttenseandthesubjectisThirdPersonsingularnumber,thentheverbwouldbeinpluralform(depends). Forexample, Jakedependsongreenplantstolive. Jake'spetsdependongreenplantstolive. Share Improvethisanswer Follow editedOct18,2018at8:46 NathanTuggy 9,4292020goldbadges3838silverbadges5656bronzebadges answeredOct18,2018at8:23 orbitorbit 15711goldbadge22silverbadges1010bronzebadges Addacomment  |  0 forthesubject"he","she",or"it",weuseverb+s/es ifpluraland"you",weuseverb(noaddings/es) Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredOct18,2018at8:04 user83793user83793 911bronzebadge Addacomment  |  Youmustlogintoanswerthisquestion. Nottheansweryou'relookingfor?Browseotherquestionstaggedsubject-verb-agreementverb-agreement. 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