Mixed Grammar

The man with all the colourful balloons _________ happy today.

• A| looks

• B| look

• C| looking

The bridegroom and his friends _____ waiting outside.

• A| are

• B| is

A packet of cookies _____ three dollars.

• A| cost

• B| costs

One of the machines _____ broken.

• A| is

• B| are

Where _________ the gifts that I deserve for washing all the smashed love bugs off the front of your car?

• A| is

• B| are

Mrs. Mauzy told her student, "There __________ too many subject-verb errors in this essay for it to pass."

• A| is

• B| are

Not only shopping for presents but also attending boring parties __________ many people dislike the winter holidays.

• A| makes

• B| make

Neither the nurses nor Dr. Taggart __________ soup at the hospital cafeteria. There are rumors that the cooks regularly use two-week-old leftovers as the primary ingredient.

• A| buy

• B| buys

The inch-thick dust on all the furniture, as well as the piles of unwashed clothes and dirty dishes, __________ convinced Tony that Horace will not make a good roommate.

• A| have

• B| has

He said, "I am looking at the diagram."

• (A)He said that I am looking at the diagram.

• (B)He said that I was looking at the diagram.

• (C)He says that he was looking at the diagram.

• (D)He said that he was looking at the diagram.