Correcting misused words and phrases.

Select the correct sentence.

• Neither one of them are ready yet.

• Neither one of them is ready yet.

The desk and the chair (sits or sit) in the corner.

(a)  

Select the sentence written correctly.

• Each of us were scheduled to take the test.

  
  

• Each of us was scheduled to take the test.

  
  

Select the sentence that is correctly written.

• The coach, not the players, has been ill.

• The coach, not the players, have been ill.

Select the sentence correctly written.

• Since the last paragraph of the contract is not clear to anybody, both parties to the agreement had ought to agree to change it.

• Since the last paragraph of the contract is not clear to anybody, both parties to the agreement ought to agree to change it.

I (council or counsel) you to rest and lie quietly in bed until you feel ready to get up.

(a)  

Anybody [who's or whose] circumstances have been adverse can sympathize with the misfortunes of others​ (a)  

• Who's
• whose

How [​quick or quickly​ (a)   ] he runs. (b)  

• drop down
• quick
• quickly