Grammar Exercise on SUBJECT-VERB-AGREEMENT
1.The long ramp, as well as the tiny lots and confusing signs in mall carparks
_________ (is, are) driving motorists crazy.
2.Either John or his sons __________ (is, are) going to get the assets from their company board.
3.There _________ (is, are) still some missing evidence that may lead us to new discoveries in solving this murder case.
4.The recent news on Sichuan Earthquake _______ (bring, brings) fear to the victims’ families and nationwide as well.
5.Half of his animal farm _______ (was, were) wrecked by the massive fire and as a result, a lot of work had to be done to rebuild back what it used to be.
6.A joint session of the ministers and its people ________ (is, are) specially scheduled next week to enhance better understanding of one another.
7.Neither Nat nor Jane ________ (is, are) going to be elected as the incoming President of Sports club.
8.Reliable resources have been reporting that use of healthcare products ________ (do, does) not make any wonders in our body systems.
9.It is the politician himself, not his fiery speeches that ________ (cause, causes) the civilians to go on violent demonstration.
10.Some reports, citing from political sources, _________ (state, states) that this nation is going to experience political unrest if nothing has been done to it.
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I think one big reason of misusing the form of the verbs is that we are not familiar with the sentense structures (neither..nor, Either..or, ..not.. as what Raymond refered in the exercise)or the categories of the nouns ( collective nouns? singular nouns? ). Sometimes, even when we know what is right, we may make mistakes when talking.
The exercise covers some typical sentence stuctures that we make mistakes frequently.however, dear Raymond, since you provide us such good exercise, could you be kind enough to give us the answers as well?^^
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