Subject Verb Agreement

The students in my karate class...... carefully whenever the instructor demonstrates a move.

• watch

• watches

The jar of pickles..... stored in the coolest section of the cellar.

• was

• were

The birthday cards that I received this year .... mostly from out of town.

• are

• is

The town men, who both work the third shift at the police station, ..... during the day.

• sleep

• sleeps

The judges on the panel ..... which skaters will continue to the semifinals.

• decide

• decides

Songs about love often ..... me cry.

• makes

• make

At the end of the story, the king of the birds ..... "I grant the eagle's request!"

• declares

• declare

No one in the play ..... prepared for the overwhelming response of the audience on opening night.

• was

• were

Most of the cups ....... unbroken after the earthquake.

• was

• were

Few of the world's sharks ...... to be sixty feet long.

• grows

• grow