Problems with Verbs Test One SUBJECT - VERB AGREEMENT Directions!!!

• 1. Select the Answers
• 2. Print the page
• 3. Submit the page to the instructor

  Now, practice on the following multiple-choice questions:

1. Every morning, Robert     Select your answer    A. brush    B. brushes     his teeth.

2. Right now, Ronny and I     Select your answer    A. are    B. am     eating lunch.

3. One of my best friends     Select your answer    A. have    B. has     two houses.

4. Everybody ___ going to attend class on Friday.     Select your answer    A. is    B. are     two houses.

5. Peter     Select your answer    A. has    B. have     lived in N.Y.C. for five years.

6. The ceiling in Michael’s bedroom is covered with stars which     Select your answer    A. are    B. is     in the shape of a constellation.

7. The jacket that     Select your answer    A. go    B. goes     with these pants is at the cleaners.

7. Nobody I know     Select your answer    A. brag    B. brags     as much as Ernest.

9. Either the neighborhood kids or the automatic car wash always     Select your answer    A. tear    B. tears     the antenna off my car.

10. The shivering and crying of animals in pet stores     Select your answer    A. sadden    B. saddens     me very much.

11. There     Select your answer    A. is    B. are     a scratching noise coming from behind this wall.

12. In the rear of the closet     Select your answer    A. was    B. were     the basketball sneakers which I thought I had lost.

13. Workers at Japanese auto plants always     Select your answer    A. begin    B. begins     each day with a period of exercise.

14. The earliest date on any of the cemetery gravestones     Select your answer    A. appear    B. appears     to be 1804.

15. Joan     Select your answer    A. shoulds    B. should     be here by five oclock.

16.     Select your answer    A. May    B. My     I go to the opera with you?

17. If I had the money, I     Select your answer    A. woulds    B. would    buy a new car.

18. Eveline     Select your answer     sacrificed,     sacrificing,     sacrifice,     her own life because she     Select your answer     don't want     doesn't want     doesn't wants     her family to starve.

19. Eveline and her father always     Select your answer     argue,     arguing,     argues,     over money because the family     Select your answer     is     are want     poor.

20. Eveline     Select your answer     try,     tries,     trying,     to keep her promise to her mother, but     Select your answer     is     it is     difficult.

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