Grammar Practice: Subject-Verb Agreement

Front

Identify the incorrect sentence: Everyone has done his or her homework. Each student is responsible for his or her work. Either my father or my brothers is going to sell the car. Neither my sisters nor my mother is going to sell the house.

Back

Either my father or my brothers is going to sell the car.

Front

Incorrect sentence: The samples on the tray in the lab needs testing.

Back

The samples on the tray in the lab needs testing.

Front

Identify the incorrect sentence: Either the girls or the boy walks in the evening. Either the boy or the girls walk in the evening. At the end of the fall come the hard tests. The slaughter of animals for fur has caused controversy.

Back

At the end of the fall come the hard tests.

Front

Find the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement.

Back

The student, as well as his teacher, was going on the field trip.

Front

Find the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement.

Back

By the time they arrived yesterday, it stopped raining. After they unpacked, we headed downtown and visited an art museum with them.

Front

Find the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement.

Back

In China, people believe that if you see a black cat at night, you might experience something bad because they think a black cat is a sign of bad luck.

Front

Improve the sentence: When I argue with him to put the phone down and focus on the road, he is rude and yelled that nothing will happen.

Back

When I argued with him to put the phone down and focus on the road, he was rude and yelled that nothing would happen.

Front

Improve the sentence: 'We seldom spend much time in our rooms if we could help it.'

Back

We seldom spend much time in our rooms if we can help it.

Front

The seashore, where we can enjoy swimming or go snorkeling, beckoned.

Back

NO CHANGE

Front

Sentence improvement: In the evenings, we like to sit at the top of the dunes and watches the stars come out.

Back

In the evenings, we like to sit at the top of the dunes and watch the stars come out.