Subject Verb Agreement, Tenses & Wordplay Quiz

There ___ been excitement among paleontologists since a group of friends hiking in Elephant Butte State Park stumbled upon the complete skull of a Stegomastodon a prehistoric mammal believed to have weighed between three and five tons

• has

• have

• are

• was

Taiwan's tea production ___ back to the early eighteenth century, and the country ___ now known for its oolong, black, and green teas

• date / is

• dates / is

• dated / was

• is / is

Modern calculators, which can compute complex sums, ___ from abacuses hand-operated devices with beads that slide along rods.

• derives

• derive

• is deriving

• was deriving

Some scholars ___ that the origins of chess ___ back to a four-player version of the game in India around 600 CE.

• believes / dates

• believe / date

• believe / dates

• believes / date

Choose the sentence with the correct subject verb agreement.

• In the American justice system, a jury hear final arguments before retiring to a separate room to deliberate privately

• In the American justice system, a jury hears final arguments before retiring to a separate room to deliberate privately

• In the American justice system, a jury hear final arguments before retiring to a separate room to deliberates privately

• In the American justice system, a jury are hearing final arguments before retiring to a separate room to deliberate privately

In some nations today, a monarch ___ simply a ceremonial figurehead with little political power. In others, however, the country's monarch ___ the responsibility for running the government.

• is / bears

• is / bore

• is / bear

• was / have

On rainy days, Jamal and his friends ___ to invent new board games.

• likes

• like

• was liking

• had liked

Each summer, either the peach tree by the back wall, or the ones next to the garage ___ the most fruit.

• produce

• produces

• produced

The photographs, as well as the story in today's paper, ___ the spirit of our town.

• capture

• captures

• had captured

When we take our three dogs to the park, our black labrador or our golden retriever usually ___ the ball faster than our old sheepdog

• fetch

• fetches

• ferched