if a situation or way of living agrees with you, you enjoy it and feel happy and relaxed
if something such as food or drink agrees with you, it does not make you feel ill
to think that something is the right thing to do
when a verb group changes according to whether its subject is singular or plural. In English, this affects only the simple present, which adds an ‘s’ to the infinitive in the third person singular: ‘I want’ but ‘she wants’. The verbs ‘be’, ‘have’, and ‘do’ are irregular: ‘I am’, ‘you are’, ‘she is’; ‘I have’, ‘she has’; and ‘I do’, ‘she does’. In the sentences ‘A thorough search was carried out’, ‘It doesn’t matter’, and ‘The course has given me more confidence’, the verb groups ‘was carried out’, ‘doesn’t matter’, and ‘has given’ all agree with their subjects.
He doesn’t agree with giving money to beggars.
I don’t agree with corporal punishment in schools.
I find that country life really agrees with me.
Stop taking the medicine if it doesn’t agree with you.
agrees with
agreeing with
agreed with
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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