Exercise 1

RULE 1 & 2

I. Direction: Underline the correct verb in each of the sentences below.

1. Your friend (talk-talks) too much.

2. The man with the roses (look-looks) like your brother.

3. The women in the pool (swim-swims) well.

4. Bill (drive-drives) a cab.

5. The football players (run-runs) five miles every day.

6. That red-haired lady in the fur hat (live-lives) across the street.

7. He (cook-cooks) dinner for his family.

8. The boys (walk-walks) to school every day.

9. The weather on the coast (appear-appears) to be good this weekend.

10. The center on the basketball team (bounce-bounces) the ball too high.

II. Direction: Write two (2) sentences of your own illustrating the first two subject-
verb agreement rules.

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 Exercise 2
RULE 3 & 4

I. Direction: Underline the correct verb in each of the sentences below.

1. Each of the girls (look-looks) good on skis.

2. Everybody (was-were) asked to remain quiet.

3. Neither of the men (is-are) here yet.

4. (Is-Are) each of the girls ready to leave?

5. Several of the sheep (is-are) sick.

6. Some members of the faculty (is-are) present.

7. Nobody in the class (has-have) the answer.

8. Each of the girls (observe-observes) all the regulations.

9. All of the milk (is-are) gone.

10. Most of the seats (was-were) taken.

II. Direction: Write two sentences of your own illustrating rules 3 and 4.

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 Exercise 3
RULE 5, 6 & 7

I. Direction: Choose the correct verb in each of the sentences below.

1. Margo and her parents (visit-visits) each other often.

2. Either the cups or the glasses (are-is) in the dishwasher.
3. Vern and Fred (need-needs) a ride to work.
4. There (is-are) a dog, a cat, and a bird in the garage.
5. Neither Matt nor his brothers (was-were) at the party.
6. Here into the main ring of the circus (come-comes) the trained elephants.
7. Either the workers or the boss (deliver-delivers) the merchandise.
8. The committee (work-works) hard for better schools.
9. There (is-are) many things to do before the holidays.
10. The jury (was-were) polled for their verdicts.
11. Here (is-are) the nails you need for the projects.
12. Either Joyce or Ellen (was-were) here.
13. The United States (is-are) a country of contrast.
14. A magazine and a book (was-were) lying on the floor.
15. The family (is-are) occupied with their individual problems.
II. Direction: Write three sentences of your own illustrating rules 5, 6 and 7.

RULE 5:
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 Exercise 4
RULE 8, 9, & 10

I. Directions: Encircle the correct verb in each of the sentences below.

1. Mumps (is-are) one of the most uncomfortable diseases.

2. One hundred dollars (is-are) not a lot of money to some people.

3. She (doesn’t-don’t) look very well today.

4. Twenty minutes (is-are) the amount of time it takes me to get home from work.

5. It (doesn’t-don’t) seem so cold today.

6. Gymnastics (is-are) easy for Angela.

7. Interesting news (is-are) what sells our paper.

8. A pound of cookies (cost-costs) about a dollar.

9. They (doesn’t-don’t) think they’ll win the game tonight.

10. He (don’t-doesn’t) speak very well.

II. Direction: Write three sentences of your own illustrating rules 8, 9 and 10.

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 Exercise 5
Direction: Read the following paragraphs. Underline the subject-verb agreement
errors.

Everyone who go to horror movies have some reason for spending good money
on a bad experience. And nobody denies that those two hours in the theater feels, in fact,
perfectly ghastly. Most of the people who comes out looking dazed and paranoid eagerly
agrees that the movie were really awful and that they can't wait for the next one. Why do
they do this to themselves?

Some of the people comes just for the physical sensation of fear, a sensation that a
wild ride at an amusement park also provide. But these rushes of excitement responds to
nothing but illusions of danger. Everybody know that neither the movie's monsters nor
the peril of the amusement park ride are real. In either case, a customer buys five bucks'
worth of fear and confront it heroically in complete security.

Most of the viewers gives other reasons for loving these movies. Many simply
like the fantasy of them. The characters and plot of one movie isn't much different from
the characters and plot of another one, so the horror stay within predictable limits, even
when its subject is completely unreal. In addition, the simplicity of the stories are
appealing. Neither the good guys nor the monster every forget what's good or what's bad,
so there is no gray area in the viewer's value judgments. And finally, horror movie are
relaxing. After all, a monster or a demon are easier to cope with than the arms race or job
insecurity, and all that screaming over horror movies help to relieve other tensions, too.
So even though such movies may force people to check under their beds and bolt all their
windows for a few days, while they was sitting in the theater, their minds were resting in
some deeper way. So why has people always laughed at me when I've told them I wish
that life could be as safe, simple, and restful as a good horror movie?
 Exercise 6
Direction: Rewrite the following paragraph and correct any subject-verb agreement
errors.

My sister live on the ground floor of a two-storey apartment. She hate living
there. For one thing, many cat in her neighborhood howls right below her bedroom
window all night and knock over her garbage cans. One cat waits patiently outside her
door until she open it and then pounces on her feet, ruining her stockings. But the people
living upstairs is even worse than the cats. The mother starts a fire almost every month
because she forget to turn off the stove when she leave the kitchen, and the daughter
faithfully practices her gymnastics every evening just as my sister sit down to study.

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 ANSWER KEY
EXERCISE 1
1. talks EXERCISE 3

2. looks 1. visit

3. swim 2. are

4. drives 3. need

5. run 4. are

6. lives 5. were

7. cooks 6. come

8. walk 7. delivers

9. appears 8. works

10. bounces 9. are

10. were

EXERCISE 2 11. are

1. looks 12. was

2. was 13. is

3. is 14. were

4. is 15. are

5. are
6. are EXERCISE 4

7. has 1. is

8. observes 2. is

9. is 3. doesn’t

10. were 4. is
5. doesn’t
6. is
7. is
8. costs
9. don’t
10. doesn’t
EXERCISE 5

Everyone who GOES to horror movies have some reason for spending good
money on a bad experience. And nobody denies that those two hours in the theater feels,
in fact, perfectly ghastly. Most of the people who COME out looking dazed and paranoid
eagerly AGREE that the movie were really awful and that they can't wait for the next
one. Why do they do this to themselves?

Some of the people come just for the physical sensation of fear, a sensation that a
wild ride at an amusement park also provide. But these rushes of excitement RESPOND
to nothing but illusions of danger. Everybody KNOWS that neither the movie's monsters
nor the peril of the amusement park ride are real. In either case, a customer buys five
bucks' worth of fear and CONFRONTS it heroically in complete security.

Most of the viewers GIVE other reasons for loving these movies. Many simply
like the fantasy of them. The characters and plot of one movie isn't much different from
the characters and plot of another one, so the horror STAYS within predictable limits,
even when its subject is completely unreal. In addition, the simplicity of the stories IS
appealing. Neither the good guys nor the monster forgets what's good or what's bad, so
there is no gray area in the viewer's value judgments. And finally, horror MOVIES are
relaxing. After all, a monster or a demon are easier to cope with than the arms race or job
insecurity, and all that screaming over horror movies help to relieve other tensions, too.
So even though such movies may force people to check under their beds and bolt all their
windows for a few days, while they was sitting in the theater, their minds were resting in
some deeper way. So why has people always laughed at me when I've told them I wish
that life could be as safe, simple, and restful as a good horror movie?

EXERCISE 6

My sister lives on the ground floor of a two-storey apartment. She hates living
there. For one thing, many cats in her neighborhood howls right below her bedroom
window all night and knock over her garbage cans. One cat waits patiently outside her
door until she opens it and then pounces on her feet, ruining her stockings. But the people
living upstairs are even worse than the cats. The mother starts a fire almost every month
because she forget to turn off the stove when she leave the kitchen, and the daughter
faithfully practices her gymnastics every evening just as my sister sit down to study.