Review Exercises 1-19 (inverted subjects & verbs)

1. 1. _________ variety of flowers in the show, from simple carnations to the most exquisite roses.

• A wide

• There was a wide

• Was there

• Many

2. The wedges _________ dart board are worth from one to twenty points each

• they are on a

• are on a

• are they on a

• on a

3. 3. __________ producing many new movies for release after the new season begins.

• His company is

• His companies

• The company

• Why the company is

4. 4. __________that Emily Dickinson wrote, 24 were given titles and 7 were published during her lifetime.

• Of the 1,800 poems

• There were 1,800 poems

• Because the 1,800 poems

• The 1,800 poems

5. 5. Since an immediate change was needed on an emergency basis, __________ by the governor to curtail railway expenditure.

• so it was proposed

• was proposed

• because of the proposal

• it was proposed

6. 6. In the Morgan LIbrary in New York City _________ of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.

• a collection is

• in a collection

• is a collection

• which is a collection

7. 7. Some fishing fleets might not have been so inefficient in limiting their catch to target species ________ more strict in enforcing penalties.

• the government had been

• if the government had

• had the government been

• if the government

8. 8. The Dewey Decimal System, currently used in libraries throughout the world, _________ all written works into ten classes according to subject.

• dividing

• divides

• it would divide

• was divided

9. 9. Individual differences in brain-wave activity may shed light on why some people are more prone to emotional stress disorders _______ .

• that others are

• and others are

• others are

• than are others

10. 10. __________ squeezed, the orange juice in a one-cup serving provides twice the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.

• It is freshly

• If freshly

• You freshly

• If it freshly