Agreement and government

Agreement (or concord) marks related items in a sentence for one or more grammatical categories. Verbs and subjects, for example, often agree for person and number.

Government (or rection) is a particular type of agreement, which marks the dependency of one item on another. In French and Spanish, for example, gender is an inherent property of the noun, with which adjectives must agree: nouns are therefore said to govern adjectives for gender.