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Subject/Verb Agreement

Unit 1

Most of these sentences have errors in the agreement between subject and verb. Draw an arrow to link each subject/verb pair and correct any mistakes you find. If there is no mistake, write “no error.” Some sentences may have more than one error.

1. Many students in the class believes that there is too much homework. ___________________________________________________________________________________

2. The difference between Christians and Jews are that Christians believe that the Messiah has already arrived.

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3. My brother, after eating too many peanuts, feel sick.

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4. Both of the twins born to the young woman named Sarah has brown eyes.

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5. Neither the captain nor any of his aides are able to handle the assignments that the generals give them to perform.

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6. There is many different reasons why you should practice the TASC before you take it.

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7. Despite the severity of the scandal, not one of the professors were willing to speak against the college or its president.

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8. Everyone in the room is interested in what you have to say.

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9. Hard work, along with natural talent and a passion for engineering, are the secret to Edison's success.

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10. The man who like to know what the politicians do and all about the private lives of celebrities spend hours reading tabloid newspapers.

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11. Behind the church, under the tree, is several monuments to a past minister who were respected greatly by his parishioners.

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12. Any of these books is a good resource for your research assignment.

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13. The number of shark attacks are negligible.

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14. A number of dogs has been found wandering the neighborhood.

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15. Either the students or the teacher want to go on the field trip.

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16. Most people who are afraid of new technology learns how to use it eventually and find a way to accept the innovation.

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17. Three pieces of my pepperoni pizza, which I happily bought from the restaurant down the street, expecting to have a nice dinner, has vanished from my table.

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18. A magnificent amount of nations has allowed women to participate in the electoral process.

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19. Stanley Kubrick, along with Francis Ford Coppola, have helped to define modern American cinema as a legitimate art form.

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20. The rules of grammar in the English language, which have taken vocabulary from many different languages, has many exceptions.

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Unit 2

Most of these sentences have errors in the agreement between subject and verb. Draw an arrow to link each subject/verb pair and correct any mistakes you find. If there is no mistake, write “no error.” Some sentences may have more than one error.

1. Does the people have the right to do whatever they want?

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2. Perhaps the test questions, if we are very lucky and if we practice very hard, is not going to be as difficult as the group of teachers like to make us think.

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3. A pair of shoes cost much more money than I think reasonable.

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4. Do he or you know the answer to this question?

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5. In my bedroom, under my bed, lies all my old notebooks from last year.

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6. There is first prize, second prize, third prize, and a grand prize for the essay writing contest.

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7. The American government, which includes the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch, have been evolving for centuries to meet the needs of an evolving society.

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8. The reason that the classrooms are going to be closed is that the janitors' office have requested time to finish the last coats of paint.

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9. Any citizen who are caught aiding members of enemy nations will be summarily executed.

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10. Available in the new gym is a brand of treadmill that supposedly burns more calories and a group of new weight machines that records your heart rate.

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11. Members of one group or the other are responsible for organizing a bipartisan committee.

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12. Either of the contestants are qualified to accept the prize.

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13. Either contestant number one or contestants numbers two and three are qualified to accept the prize.

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14. The association of cartographers was established to aid European explorers during the Colonial ages.

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15. The jazz band have rehearsed exhaustively and are ready for tonight's performance.

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16. The laboratories in the basement of the university's research department, sponsored by one incredibly wealthy alumnus, is being granted a new set of photon detectors.

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17. Mathematics, more than English, history, and chemistry, is the subject I love to study.

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18. Alice and Bob or Tommy are going to be selected to lead the committee and the run the ceremony that is going to be held next Friday.

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19. Have there ever been, in the history of the world, anyone who could score perfectly on every test ever taken?

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20. On the bulletin board is a list of the people accepted and a telephone number to call in order to set up an appointment.

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