Exercise 10: Subject-Verb Agreement
1. John, along
with twenty friends, are planning a party.
2. The picture
of the soldiers bring back many memories.
3. The quality
of these recordings are not very good.
4. If the duties of these officers aren’t
reduced, there will not be enough time to finish the project.
5. The effects
of cigrette smoking have been proven to be extremely harmful.
6. The use of
credit cards in place of cash have increased rapidly in recent years.
7. Advertisements
on television are becoming more competitive than ever before.
8. Living
expenses in this country, as well as in many others, is at an all-time high.
9. Mr. Jones, accompanied by several
members of the committee, has proposed some changes of the rules.
10. The levels of
intoxication vary from subject to subject.
Exercise 11: Subject-Verb
Agreement
1. Neither Bill
nor Mary are going to the play tonight.
2. Anything are better than going to another movie
tonight.
3. Skating is
becoming more popular every day.
4. A number of
reporters were at the conference yesterday.
5. Everybody
who has a fever must go home immediately.
6. Your glasses
were on the bureau last night.
7. There were
some people at the meeting last night.
8. The
committee has already reached a decision.
9. A pair of
jeans were in the washing mechine this morning.
10. Each student
have answered the first three questions.
11. Either John
or his wife makes breakfast each morning.
12. After she had perused the material, the
secretary decided that every-thing were in order.
13. The crowd at
the basketball game was wild with excitement.
14. A pack of
wild dogs has frightened all the ducks away.
15. The jury is
trying to reach a decision.
16. The army has
eliminated this section of the training test.
17. The number of
students who have withdrawn from class this quarter are appalling.
18. There have
been too many interruptions in this class.
19. Every
elementary school teacher has to take this examination.
20. Neither Jill
nor her parents have seen this movie before
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