Agreement with Number and Intervening Prepositional Phrases

It is amazing that oysters ___ beautiful pearls.

• create

• creates

Loretta, along with her two friends, ___ tacos for lunch almost every day.

• eats

• eat

Those books next to the window ___ dusting.

• needs

• need

The candles ___ brightly in the darkened room.

• glows

• glow

Alicia's missing hamster ___ out of the closet.

• run

• runs

The library near the White House ___ more than twenty million books.

• contain

• contains

Every morning my little brother ___ for oatmeal.

• asks

• ask

The mountains in the distance ___ to Italy.

• belong

• belongs

Tomorrow's championship game ___ been rescheduled.

• have

• has

The winner of those ribbons ___ the spaniel.

• is

• are