SV Practice

Problem Content Tested Whai I did Wrong

1 Subject Verb
2 Subject Verb
3 Subject Verb

4 Subject Verb The number is singular ; A numbers is plural

5 Subject Verb
6 Subject Verb
7 Subject Verb Thoughts Products makes the sentense plural
8 Subject Verb Missed "Every " in sentense
9 Subject Verb Not understod the meaning
10 Subject Verb
11 Subject Verb the increase in prices (Subject id Increase not Prices)

Problem Content Tested
1 Subject Verb
2 Subject Verb
3 Subject Verb
4 Subject Verb
5 Subject Verb
6 Subject Verb
7 Subject Verb
SV Practice
Whai I did Wrong
Meaning analysis
The number is singular ; A numbers is plural
ignored comma + yet.  Comma + FANBOYS 
Thoughts Products makes the sentense plural

SV OG Quiz
Problem Content Tested Whai I did Wrong
1 Subject Verb unable to find Subject and meaning
2
3
4
5
6
7 Subject Verb & tense SV Agreement , Tense error
8 SV & conjuction IGNORE preposition uses
9 Subject Verb ignore SV
10
11 Subject Verb SV error
12 idiom idomatic error dated to be
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14 tense and sv
15 Subject Verb SV error
 SV OGR Quiz
Problem Content Tested Whai I did Wrong
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2
3
4 sv missed sentense in between 2 comas in A
5
6

7 sv no understod which reference

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9 SV SV error
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12
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14 sv Meaning error

VERB
Practice Verb 1
Problem Content Tested Whai I did Wrong
1 Verb uses
2 Verb uses chossen wrong verb
3 Verb uses chossen wrong verb
4 Verb uses chossen wrong verb
VERB OG
Problem Content Tested Whai I did Wrong
1 verb uses conside sentences with if + would

2 verb uses appriciative ,

3 verb uses destroyed and heavily damaged

4 verb uses and making sentense plural
5 verb uses LESS OR LOWER

6 verb uses Many tings to learn from this example

VERB CONCEPT 2

1 Subjunctive verb use of advice "to"

2 Subjunctive verb
3 Subjunctive verb Use of singular verb
4 Conditional verb
5 Conditional verb

Verb Practice Quiz

1 Subjunctive verb not recognized sentence presenting fact

2 Subjunctive verb Clause stating fact " word necessary " shows certinity

3 verb tenses
4 verb tenses
5 Subjunctive verb selected wrong ans
6 Tense Error Idioms & sentense tense error
7 Subjunctive verb Sentense meaning " identifying uncertinity"

8 Subjunctive verb SUBJUNCTIVE RULE

Practice
Takeway Re Do date Result
5/1/2018
5/1/2018
5/1/2018 use of has /have

Meaning analysis not done 5/1/2018

5/1/2018
5/1/2018
Subject is never preceded by preposition 5/1/2018
5/1/2018
Try to read in small chunks 5/1/2018
5/1/2018
Subject is never preceded by preposition

Practice
Takeway Re Do date

What left worker without salary

Meaning analysis not done

Subject is never preceded by preposition

OG Quiz
Takeway Re Do date
SV to find and link in sentence

POE

read carefully

identify missing verb

correct uses dated at

identify missing verb

OGR Quiz
Takeway Re Do date

careless reading habbit

"which" is refering other noun,

2) uses of commas played important role

Meaning error

adding the pronoun

b1
Takeway Re Do date

two action happened at same time in past hence Simple past

time sequence : earlier Past perfect (had been)+ simple past(ed)
use of before in tense sequence change
ERB OG
Takeway Re Do date
if would is never be used in phrase

sequence wise, the showers took place first. These showers then
resulted in insignificant increase in the water level. Hence, the next day
the government announced that the restrictions would continue. Since
the action denoted by simple past tense verb resulted took place before
the announcement was made, we need past perfect tense had resulted
to convey the intended meaning

both can not be at a time.

read carefully
 LESS THAN
having blocked shad migrations up their spawning streams had reduced
landings to an amount lower :
This choice incorrectly uses the modifier comma + having…. This modifier
is used to denote an action done prior to another action in the past. For
example:

Tom, having finished his breakfast, went to office.

The above mentioned sentence means that Tom first finished his
breakfast. Then he went to office.

However, in the current choice, the information presented by the

havingmodifier is a general information in the past about dams and
sewers. Hence use of comma + having is incorrect.

To introduce example use "such as" instead of "like". "areas like those of
finance and marketing" Totally wrong use of like here.

2)"Those of finance".What does those represent for?

3)Finally the tense which "are becoming" is far more appropriate than
"have been becoming".Its less wordy and succinct in meaning and tense
continuity.

PT 2

Allow to, Advice to, forbits to, vcx

desirable to
Verb should be plural in subjunctive form always

Quiz

the if..then clause states a fact. Thus, the correct verb tense should be
“if simple present tense, then simple present tense”

resuming of” is a rather wordy expression. The more precise expression

is “resumption of
fact representation shall be in simple present
Will / would / had cantaining clause will be eleminated

if they constructing rule in past tence

Parallism shall maintained

consolidates” should be plural “consolidate”, despite coach being

singular.
 SV Test
Environmental activists, over the past one month, has been using social media to wage war
against Nestle over its purchases of palm oil for use in Kit-Kat candy bars and other products,
1 catching the Swiss food giant off guard.

Neither the patients nor the medical consortium administering the trial know the names of the
2
patients who are getting the drug and the patients who are getting the placebo.
Learning about how best to use social media, particularly with such complex issues, are
3 challenging, but the marketing department have committed to a firm deadline to resolve these
issues by the end of this quarter
A number of reports have shown that the number of U.S. households with a net worth of $1
4 million or more, not including primary residence, exhibit a rising trend, indicating that the post
– recession recovery for millionaires is well underway.
Construction of Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, was completed by a South Korean
5 company, Samsung Engineering & Construction, and contains over 45000 cubic meter of
concrete weighing over 110000 tonnes
As part of a push to keep on track its ambitious turnaround plan, Chrysler Group rushing to
6 accelerate the US launch of its redesigned flagship sedan, a once hot-selling model whose sales
have slipped.

The first generation of wireless products was sensor-specific and not designed to cover entire
7 plants, limiting it to smaller implementations whereas today’s generation of products more
appropriate for wider deployment

Every Jewish population and German population has formed its own distinctive cluster,
8 indicating the shared ancestry and relative genetic isolation of the members of each of those
groups.

9 The idea of beaming real-time safety data from jetliners to the ground authorities has gained
new impetus after an Air France jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean
For the media giant, each of the recent lawsuits it currently faces are due to different degrees
10
of violations of copyright laws

The increase in prices of gas exports to Brazil, together with Mr. Morales’s nationalization of oil
11
and natural gas in 2006, have left his government awash with cash

Fishman reckons that by finding all the links in a pathway and then by locating the key signals
1
turning genes on or off will lead Novartis to therapies for illnesses once deemed incurable.

AART, a procedure that replicates heart arteries using carbon nanotubes, enables people with a
2
weak heart to be able to participate in sports and to lead a healthy life like a normal person.

Three factories were closed and one of them was owned by Mr Deripaska, one of Russia’s
3 richest tycoons and the boss of Rusal, the world’s largest aluminum company, has left workers
without pay
 The settlements in Colorado, whose year-round stable food resources and sedentary lifestyle
4 permitted increase in population, was the foundation of the Mesoamerican civilization that
followed hundred years later.

Like smaller companies, the larger companies, some of them with more than $100B in revenue,
5 continue to be impacted by the advancements in technology, however their product cycles
being so long that most of their products do not change from one year to another

6 Allied Signal is mainly a systems company, yet supplementing its control systems sales with
sales of field instruments such as pressure and temperature transmitters.

Devices such as hearing aids, which amplify sounds, and cochlear implants, which stimulate the
auditory nerve directly, help people hear, but neither restores hearing to normal.

OG Test
Recent interdisciplinary studies advance the argument that emotions, including those deemed
1 personal or private is a social phenomenon, though one inseparable
The intricate structure of the compound insect eye, having hundreds of miniature eyes called
2 ommatidia, help explain why scientists have assumed that it evolved independently of the
vertebrate eye.

Discussion of greenhouse effects have usually had as a focus the possibility of Earth growing
warmer and to what extent it might, but climatologists have indicated all along that
3 precipitation, storminess, and temperature extremes are likely to have the greatest impact on
people.

4 A surge in new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the
economy might not be as weak as some analysts previously thought.

In 1913, the largely self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan mailed 120 of his
theorems to three different British mathematicians; only one, G. H. Hardy, recognized the
5
brilliance of these theorems, but thanks to Hardy's recognition, Ramanujan was eventually
elected to the Royal Society of London.

The use of the bar code, or Universal Product Code, which was created in part to enable
supermarkets to process customers at a faster rate, has expanded beyond supermarkets to
6
other retail outlets and have become readily accepted despite some initial opposition when it
was first introduced in 1974

According to a recent study of consumer spending on prescription medications, increases in the

sales of the 50 drugs that were advertised most heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8
7
billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came from sales of the 9,850
prescription medicines that companies did not advertise or advertised very little.

Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of
8
administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.

The 32 species that make up the dolphin family are closely related to whales and in fact include
9 the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long and is famous for its
aggressive hunting pods.
 The absence from business and financial records of the nineteenth century of statistics about
10 women leave us with no record of the jobs that were performed by women and how they
survived economically.

Although appearing less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins,
heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year—they are often green
11
and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises—heirlooms are more flavorful and thus in
increasing demand.

Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-mile-wide
12 asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is
evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.
13
Fossils of the arm of a sloth found in Puerto Rico in 1991, and dated at 34 million years old,
14 made it the earliest known mammal of the Greater Antilles islands.

While many of the dinosaur fossils found recently in northeast China seem to provide evidence
15 of the kinship between dinosaurs and birds, the wealth of enigmatic fossils seem more likely at
this stage that they will inflame debates over the origin of birds rather than settle them.

OGR Test
Together with Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State
Park, the first underwater park in the United States, provide 165 square nautical miles of
1
marine life for underwater explorers, which includes more than 500 species of fish and 55
varieties of coral.

2 The themes that Rita Dove explores in her poetry is universal, encompassing much of the
human condition while occasionally she deals with racial issues.
Variability in individual physical traits both are determined through genetic factors,
3
environmental factors, and interaction between these factors.
Child development specialists believe that, in confining babies much of the time to strollers,
4
high chairs, playpens, and walkers, muscle development can be inhibited.
Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of
5 clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to
maintain a bank’s profits on paper.

6 The growth projected for these storms in different computerized weather models varies widely

The completion in 1925 of the Holland Tunnel, linking Manhattan with New Jersey's highways,
7 which permitted 2,000 cars to pass through each tube every hour and was hailed as the
decade's $48 million engineering masterpiece.

Developed by Pennsylvania’s Palatine Germans about 1750, Conestoga wagons, with high
8 wheels capable of crossing rutted roads, muddy flats, and the nonroads of the prairie and they
had a floor curved upward on either end so as to prevent cargo from shifting on steep grades.

Twenty-two feet long and 10 feet in diameter, the AM-1 is one of the many new satellites that
9 is a part of 15 years effort of subjecting the interactions of Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and
land surfaces to detailed scrutiny from space.
10 Because the collagen fibers in skin line up in the direction of tension, surgical cuts made along
these so-called Langer’s lines sever fewer fibers and is less likely to leave an unsightly scar.

According to United States census data, while there was about one-third of mothers with
11 young children working outside the home in 1975, in 2000, almost two-thirds of those mothers
were employed outside the home.

Even though the overall consumer price index did not change in April, indicating the absence of
12 any general inflation or deflation, prices in several categories of merchandise have fallen over
the last several months.

The Anasazi settlements at Chaco Canyon were built on a spectacular scale with more than 75
13 carefully engineered structures, of up to 600 rooms each, were connected by a complex
regional system of roads.
Archaeologists in Ireland believe that a recently discovered chalice, which dates from the
14 eighth century, was probably buried to keep from being stolen by invaders

Verb Practice
For over a decade now the National Health Service has been at the top of public worries and
1
the cause of much political feud.

The cop car crossed the intersection when the signal turned red.
2
Select the correct answer choice if the cop car started crossing the intersection when the signal
turned red

Although the vaccine, made partly from the brains of other sheep, had been thoroughly
3 sterilized in formalin, it retained some infectious strength, causing a massive epidemic of
scrapie in Britain.

Although some of Toyota’s rivals, notably Volkswagen of Germany and Hyundai of South Korea,
4 have come through the terrible past year relatively unscathed, Toyota’s market share either
has fallen or has been flat in every region in which Toyota operates except Japan – a market
that shrank well before the crisis struck.
VERB US
While some academicians believe
that business ethics should be integrated into every business course,
1
others say that students will take ethics seriously
only if it would be taught as a separately required course

Government officials announced that restrictions on the use of water would continue because
2 no appreciative increase in the level of the river resulted from the intermittent showers that
had fallen throughout the area the day before.
Some buildings that were destroyed and heavily damaged in the earthquake last year were
3 constructed in violation of the city's building code.
 Thomas Eakins’ powerful style and his choices of subject—the advances in modern surgery, the
4 discipline of sport, the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with themselves—
was as disturbing to his own time as it is compelling for ours.

Around 1900, fishermen in the Chesapeake Bay area

landed more than seventeen million pounds of shad in a single year, but by 1920,over-fishing
5 and the proliferation of milldams
and culverts that have blocked shad migrations up their spawning streams had reduced
landings to less than four million pounds.

As business grows more complex, students majoring in specialized areas like those of finance
6
and marketing have been becoming increasingly successful in the job market.

(verb concept prac

So Timothy can balance his calorie intake with his calories usage, the doctor advised that he
1 not consume more than 2000 calories in a day.

For producing effective e-learning content, it is desirable that images that paint a visual sketch
2
of the idea in the mind of the learner are used.

The National Security Agency insists that in order to disrupt any terrorist activities, it regularly
3 scan most if not all overseas cables and telephone traffic and a large volume of written
domestic communications.

4 Many theorists predict that if scientists would figure out a way to get telomerase even to the
small portion of brain cells that divide, there may be some brain benefit
Even though, Palin asserted McCain’s health care plan to be “budget neutral,” costing the
5 government nothing, independent budget experts estimate that McCain's plan would cost tens
of billions each year.

VERB PRACTICE Q

The Obama Administration is not expected to allow resuming of off-shore drilling until oil
1 companies sign a memorandum that would include a penalty if they do not follow the
recommended safety guidelines

Before infusing stem cells into a patient, processing may be necessary; for example, if the
2 donor and recipient have a major blood group incompatibility, red blood cells may be removed
from the graft to prevent a transfusion reaction from occurring.

During the war John Chadwick spent time as a cryptanalyst in Alexandria, where he had broken
3
Italian ciphers before moving to Bletchley Park, where he attacked Japanese ciphers.

The recent discovery of fossils of giant plankton feeders led scientists to believe that an era
4 that had been dominated by Leedsichthys that have now evolved currently into basking sharks
existed

Since it defines the customer experience, the mobile phone OS is of strategic importance to
5 engineers at Nokia, who assume that if they did not control it, they will not be able to
differentiate themselves
 Despite it has accounted for less than one percent of the land area, Mumbai houses 10 percent
6
of the population of the country.
Researchers estimate that in order to use stem cells in future to treat organ damage, genetic
7 engineers need to experiment significantly more than they do now about the growth
mechanisms and transformation structures of these cells

Critics assessing UKs football team’s debacle demanded that the coach should include more
8 young and energized players, consolidate the selection process to a more integrated process,
and create talent pool with high quality results.
 SV Test

Have

patients nor the medical consortium administering the trial knows Correct

is challenging, but the marketing department has

have shown that the number of U.S. households with a net worth of $1 million or more, not including primary residence, exh

and the building contains

As part of a push to keep on track its ambitious turnaround plan, Chrysler Group is

has

has

is

finding all the links in a pathway and then locating the key signals turning

nanotubes, enables people with a weak heart to participate in sports and to lead

The closure of three factories, one of them owned

 continue to be impacted by the advancements in technology, but their product cycles are

but it supplements

help people hear, but neither restores

OG Test

private,are social phenomena that are inseparabl

(C) heavily accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of the
increase coming

but except in

include the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long and is 
Although heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year, appear less appetizing than most of their
round and red supermarket cousins

have been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus are

sloth, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, have been dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mamma

seems more likely at this stage to inflame debates over the origin of birds than to

OGR Test
 Verb Practice 1

For the scenario explained in the question, the two actions took place at the same time – i.e. the cop car crossed at the same
the signal turned red. Thus both actions should be in simple past tense.
If the scenario is “Cop car was already crossing the intersection and then the signal turned red”, then the correct tense is p
continuous since a continuous event was intersected by another event.

This sentence requires appropriate sequencing of verbs to express the intended meaning. Clearly, per the context of the sent
the vaccine was first sterilized in formalin and then it was found that it retained some infectious strength. Thus, event ‘steriliz
formalin’ should be expressed in past perfect tense and ‘retained’ should be in simple past tense

VERB USES OG1

(verb concept practice) 2

HIM TO

to use images that paint a visual sketch of the idea in the mind of the learner

Correct

that in order to disrupt any terrorist activities, it regularly scan

figure out a way to get telomerase even to the small portion of brain cells that divide, there may

would

VERB PRACTICE QUIZ

is not expected to allow resumption of off-shore drilling until oil companies sign a memorandum that includes a penalty if the

have a major blood group incompatibility, red blood cells are

spent time as a cryptanalyst in Alexandria, where he broke Italian ciphers before moving

dominated by Leedsichthys that have now evolved

without controlling it, they would not be able to differentiate themselves

 Although it accounts for

would need to experiment significantly more than they do now

that the coach include more young and energized players, consolidate
Conditional verb