Subject Verb Agreement Exercise

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT: Additional Practice 1

From the choices provided after each sentence select a word that would correctly complete the sentence. Submit the form using the SUBMIT APPLICATION button at the end of the exercise. Your score will be returned to you in a few seconds.

Quizzes labeled "Practice Exercise" or "Additional Practice" are taken from the ancillary materials for Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide, by Evelyn Farbman, and are used by the Guide for Grammar and Writing with the kind permission of the book's author and the publisher, Houghton Mifflin.

1.  The piano as well as the pipe organ ____________ to be tuned for the big concert.
HAS
HAVE

The correct response is "HAS".

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2.  The mayor together with his two brothers ____________ going to be indicted for accepting bribes.
ARE
IS

The correct response is "IS".

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3.  Neither of my two suitcases ____________ adequate for this trip.
IS
ARE

You're right!

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4.  There ____________ a list of committee members on the head-table.
ARE
IS

The correct response is "IS". Remember that with the constructions "There is" and "There are," the subject ("list," in this case) comes after the verb.

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5.  Everybody in the class ____________ done the homework well in advance.
HAS
HAVE

You're right!

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6.  The jury ____________ their seats in the courtroom.
TAKE
TAKES

The correct response is "TAKE".

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7.  Neither the teacher nor the students ____________ to understand this assignment.
SEEM
SEEMS

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8.  ____________ either my father or my brothers made a down-payment on the house?
HAS
HAVE

You're right!

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9.  Hartford is one of those cities that ____________ working hard to reclaim a riverfront.
HINT: Try starting the sentence with "Of those cities that . . . ."
IS
ARE

You're right!

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10.  Some of the grain ____________ gone bad.
HAVE
HAS

You're right!

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11.  John or his brother ____________ going to be responsible for this.
ARE
IS

You're right!

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12.  A few of the students ____________ doing so well they can skip the next course.
ARE
IS

You're right!

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13.  Either the Committee on Course Design or the Committee on College Operations ____________ these matters.
DECIDE
DECIDES

The correct response is "DECIDES" because the word "committee" is singular.

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14.  One of my instructors ____________ written a letter of recommendation for me.
HAVE
HAS

The correct response is "HAS" because the subject is "one."

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the uninvited by frank taylor

The novel i have read is The Uninvited by Frank Taylor. This book stories about the alien comes with their spaceship and landed at the Earth. At that moment the family was spot the spacecraft at above of them. The first mankind found the spacecraft is David and his sister in law. He was the husband to Caroline and father's son and daughter is Dean and Michelle. He thought the object is star but it can’t be because the light is so bright. Then the spaceship gives the action with pull up the car but the spacecraft release back the car. They think it was warning from the creatures to them. But David wants to know what the object it is. After he knows the object is spacecraft his family was in danger. His daughter can’t be able to speak and his wife and sister in law always dream the same things that she was in spacecraft and his self-affected with like skin disease. One day the alien comes to the family's house with dressed like Men in Black. They ask the question about aliens and cautions not to reporting to police. David strange how they know about this but David do not realize them there is an aliens. After they moved away from the house, David's disease had recovered and David's wife has no longer dream on spacecraft but his daughter can’t be able to speak anymore. David's wife make decision to be moving to other place but David not willing leave bar that is being he organize. So severe for him give up most valuable property. Then after David thinks what happened to the family, he makes decision to be moving. Now the family live peacefully unmolested by aliens.

I think I have in common with the character that have inside this novel namely David. He willing leaves the property that had he works on for years for the family safety. Here I want to relate on myself with David. Actually I'm a smoker and I start smoking since form 3. During in school when form 5, I was caught when i smoking in dorm by hostel warden. Then I was imposed discipline action and they called my parent to discuss my discipline problems. I feel ashamed and sympathy on my parent because they took pains comes from afar only just to discuss my discipline problems. Since that case I make decision would never smoke. Similarly in Kolej Siswa, I do not want to take risk to smoke in Kolej Siswa because I do not want to worry my parent.

But now I’m smoking again but rarely. My parents allowed me to smoking but i don't want to mistakenly use the permission for smoking wherever.