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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 495.

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SUBJECT-PREDICATE AGREEMENT

The sentences below will help you review the most important rules of subject-predicate agreement:

Exercise 5.1.

There (is / are) two clean shirts in your bottom drawer.

There (stands / stand) three young men

There (‘s / ‘re) too many of them living up there.

Few (is / are) expected to remain here in the summer.

None of the children (goes / go) to school today.

A large number of cars (was / were) parked on the lot.

The number of books missing from the library (is / are) large.

The majority of people (is / are) little moved by this sight.

The majority (was / were) in favor of the proposal.

Many an artist (comes / come) here every day.

The barracks (was / were) quite new.

New aircraft (has / have) been already ordered.

We came to the crossroads that (was / were) described in the guide book.

Offspring (is / are) usually more brilliant than parents.

The deer (is / are) hunted in the fall.

Zebra (is / are) a difficult prey.

Television series nowadays (is / are) simply atrocious.

Acoustics (is / are) the science of sound.

The acoustics in the new concert hall (is / are) faultless.

Ceramics (is / are) very popular in our area.

Cards (is / are) a compulsive game.

Two thirds of the swampland (has / have) been reclaimed as a recreation area.

Politics (is / are) much more difficult than physics.

What (is / are) your politics?

In our church the clergy (does / do) not marry.

The cattle (was / were) not allowed to graze freely.