SUBJECT AGREEMENT EXERCISE

NAME CLASS
STUDY PROGRAM SEMESTER
EXERCISE 1
Subject-Verb Agreement Practice Exercises
1. Everyone (has/have) done his or her homework.
2. Each of the students (is/are) responsible for doing his or her work.
3. Either my father or my brothers (is/are) going to sell the car.
4. Neither my sisters nor my mother (is/are) going to sell the house.
5. The samples on the tray in the lab (need/needs) testing.
6. Mary and John usually (plays/play) together.
7. Both of the dogs (has/have) collars.
8. Neither the dogs nor the cat (is/are) very hungry.
9. Either the girls or the boy (walk/walks) in the evening.
10. Either the boy or the girls (walk/walks) in the evening.
11. At the end of the fall (comes/come) the hard tests.
12. The slaughter of animals for their fur (has/have) caused controversy.
13. The student, as well as his teacher, (was/were) going on the field trip.
14. The hard tests (comes/come) at the end of the fall.
15. Both of my roommates (has/have) decided to live in the dorms.
EXERCISE 2
Choose the word that correctly completes each sentence below.
1. Everyone (complains, complain) when gas prices go up.
2. Most of Benito's shirts (has, have) at least one pocket.
3. Somebody (is, are) addressing all the wedding invitations with a fountain pen.
4. Everyone in the Hundley family (buys, buy) a new toothbrush twice a year.
5. Few of my friends (dislikes, dislike) both crunchy peanut butter and the smooth
variety.
6. Nobody (remembers, remember) that the space between the thumb and the first
finger is called the purlicue.
7. Some of the children (stops, stop) at the ice cream shop every day.
8. Nothing (ends, end) the baby's crying except being rocked in the rocking chair.
9. All of the workers who enter by the main gate (passes, pass) through a metal detector.
10. Each of the messages on the answering machine (is, are) for Dody.
EXERCISE 3
1. Every participant (has / have) been notified of the change in schedule.
2. The old lady and her twelve cats (was / were) evicted from the apartment.
3. Everyone (is / are) bringing a homemade dish.
4. Neither of the cars in the accident (was / were) insured.
5. Most of the rooms in the hotel (have / has) air-conditioning.
6. John, together with his wife and two children, (is / are) going to dinner.
7. One of the speakers (is / are) not here yet.
8. No news (is / are) good news.
EXERCISE 4
Choose the correct form from the parentheses.
1. Neither Mary nor her friends (is / are) going to have a party.
2. A number of graduates (have / has) received scholarship from this department.
3. All of the money (was / were) found.
4. Every man and woman (has / have) the right to vote.
5. The number of car accidents (is / are) increasing every year.
6. Both corn and wheat (is / are) grown in Canada.
7. Most of our furniture (is / are) in storage.
8. My new pair of pants (is / are) at the cleaners.
9. The Chinese (was /were) drinking tea in the year 2000 B.C.
10.The police (is / are) on the alert for the escaped convict.
EXERCISE 5
Find the correct form of the given verb in the following sentences.
1. One of the students in my class (come) from Bangladesh.
2. The people who have invited me to the opening of the exhibition (want) me to write
an article about it afterward.
3. Almost everyone in my class (have) a part-time job.
4. Writing essays (require) a lot of skill.
5. Neither his wife nor his children (know) that he has lost his job.
6. Every book that is assigned for this course (cost) more than $20.
7. The president and his wife (have) agreed to attend the ceremony.
8. My sister always (try) her hardest.
9. Today's news (be) surprising.
10.The bunch of flowers that she (want) to buy (be) very expensive.
EXERCISE 6
Underline the form from that correctly completes each sentence.
1. Ethics (is / are) the study of moral duties, principles, and values.
2. The first bridge to be build with electric lights (was / were) the Brooklyn Bridge.
3.There (is / are) two types of calculus, differential and integral.
4.George Gershwin, together with his brother Ira, (was / were) the creator of the first
musical comedy to win Pulitzer Prize.
5. In a chess game, the player with the white pieces always (moves / move) first.
6. The Earth and Pluto (is / are) the only two planets in the solar system believed to
have a single moon.
7. A number of special conditions (is / are) necessary for the formation of a geyser.
8. Each of the Ice Ages (was / were) more than a million years long.
9. The battery, along with the alternator and starter, (makes / make) up the electrical
system of a car.
10. Teeth (is / are) covered with a hard substance called enamel.
11. The more-or-less rhythmic succession of economic booms and busts (is / are)
referred to as the business cycle.
12. The number of chromosomes in a cell (varies / vary) from species to species.
13. All trees, except for the tree fern, (is / are) seed bearing plants.
14. Fifteen hundred dollars a year (was / were) the per-capita income in the United
States in 1950.
15. Everyone who (goes / go) into the woods should recognize common poisonous
plants such as poison ivy and poison oak.
EXERCISE 7
Underline the subject of the missing verb and fill in the blanks with
"is" or "are".
1. Neither the doctor nor the nurses __ here.
2. The number of nurses in the city __ very large.
3. All of nurses __ very good.
4. All of the medicine__gone.
5. Some of the water __ used for irrigation.
6. Most of the money __ counterfeit.
7. Not only the money but also the jewels __ locked up in the safe.
8. Neither the jewels nor the money __ mine.
9. All of the cookies __ gone.
10. Half of the furniture __ in the truck.
11. Neither of the reporters __ allowed to interview the players.
12. Everyone __ required to write a composition.
13. Every man, woman, and child __ given a free ticket.
14. Everything in the house __ destroyed by the fire.