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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by corndogs. An abomination against hot dogs.

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Albeit a delicious abomination.

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What should replace the underlined word below?

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At the state fair, she and her friends eats hotdogs and corndogs.

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The name of the game here is subject verb agreement.

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Don't sweat it, though, it's really a pretty simple game. Even a child could play it.

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All we have to do is make sure that the subject and predicate are getting along.

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If the subject is singular, the verb that follows should be singular too.

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If the subject is plural, then the predicate should be as well. It's as simple as that.

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So, the subject in this sentence is "she and her friends," because they're the ones doing

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something.

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In this case chowing down on a feast of hotdogs and corndogsand probably regretting it later.

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Since there's more than one person engaging in this feeding frenzy, the subject is plural,

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so we know that the verb that follows needs to be plural as well.

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Now that we've got that sorted out, we can eliminate (A) because "eats" is singular.

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Yeah, despite the fact that it has an s on the end.

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One "eats." Many "eat."

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We can kick (C) to the curb for the same reason. "Is" is singular, so it doesn't get along

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with our plural subject.

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(D) is also no good, because "eaten" requires the helping verb "have." It just can't make

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it in this world alone.

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And so we're left with (B), which totally works for us because "eat" is plural like

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our subject.

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It's the only choice that can handle the hotdog/corndog devouring horde.

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