Basic English Grammar Exercises (Part I)

Direction. Choose an appropriate verb that agrees with the subject of each sentence. Encircle your answer.

1. Did you (invite, invites, invited) Dr. Agnes Callanta?

2. When did Ferdinand Magellan ( land , landed, lands) in Homonhon Island?

3. Four hundred pesos (is, are) enough for a week food allowance.

4. Physics (is, are) the combination of matter and energy.

5. Blessed (is, are) those who love Jesus.

6. Hermit crabs (has, have) five pairs of jointed legs.

7. Angel falls (is, are) the .highest water falls in the world.

8. You (is, are) happy, are you not?

9. It is raining outside, (is, are) it not?

10. Six glasses of water (is, are) good to consume in a day.

11. Twenty- five percent of the votes (is, are) not enough to get the approval of the organization.

12. Many a student (express, expresses) happiness and contentment in life.

13. A number of faculty members of a certain school in Guimaras (join, joins) the Palayag Festival.

14. Using of scientific calculators ( is, are) not allowed during the Math examination.

15. Happiness (is, are) inevitable to me.

16. Sinbad and the Seven Seas (is, are) my favorite movie.

17. Either Jose or his friends ( give, gives) cash to the charity.

18. Neither her classmates nor Kit (attend, attends) the oratorical contest.

19. Life (is, are) a precious gift from God.

20. Statistics (is, are) my favorite subject.

 Basic English Grammar Exercises (Part II)

Direction. Choose and encircle the verb inside each pair of parentheses that agrees with the subject of the sentence.
1. How powerful ( is , are ) those effects?
2. How ( does , do ) individuals establish that it is their turn to speak?
3. What rules ( governs, govern ) conversation?
4. How ( is , are ) verbal messages affected by gesture, intonation ,and interpersonal space?
5. Do people who ( used, use, uses ) different information sources develop different views of the world?
6. How many males and females ( is , are ) in the group we listened in on?
7. What effects, if any, (does, do) news and entertainment have on viewers, listeners, and readers?
8. Some researchers ( is , are ) interested in the “hidden agenda” of the media.
9. What role ( does, do ) language play in shaping our understanding of an organization?
10. Nine out of 10 doctors ( recommends, recommend) Product X for those headaches that come from life’s
daily stresses.
11. Communication researchers ( has, have ) interests ranging from communication between intimate
partners to the level of mass media reaching millions of people.
12. Researchers ( tend, tends) to specialize in areas defined by the numbers of people they ( is, are )
studying, as in interpersonal communication, groups, organization ,or mass media.
13. Rhetoricians, those who study the use of language and argumentation, may (does, do) so in all four of
these areas.
14. Advertisements ( is ,are ) targeted communications designed specifically to have consumers or institutions purchase
(usually) an advertised product or service.
15. (Does, Do) the advertisement ( work, works) ?
16. Content analysis, by contrast, (is, are) a quantitative method for assessing media content, based on counting.
17. Critical analysis ( work, works) from a basic assumption that communication (maintain, maintains) and
(promote, promotes) power structures in society.
18. If women ( is ,are) represented as less healthy than men, (is, are) a message being subtly propagated
that women ( is, are) less able than men to function in society?
19. Action research ( involve, involves) engaging in research specifically to improve people’s lives.
20. Phenomenologists and Ethnographers (try , tries) to understand people’s subjective worlds.
 Basic English Grammar Exercises (Part III)

Direction. Choose and encircle the verb inside each pair of parentheses that agrees with the subject of the sentence.
1. Neither Jose nor I (has, have) a mistaken identity.
2. Either Maria or her friends (deliver, delivers) a song presentation.
3. Today (is, are) my birthday.
4. University of the Philippines (is, are) a National University.
5. All (is, are) well.
6. Twenty-six pesos ( is, are ) enough for my one -day allowance.
7. Three-fourths of a cake ( is, are ) given to the street children.
8. Miguel’s and Lindro’s friend (is, are) my brother.
9. The three smallest bones in the human body (is, are) stirrup, anvil, and hammer.
10. The faculty ( has, have ) given the opportunity to go to Boracay Island.
11. Association of Integrated Mathematicians and Scientists (is ,are, was, were ) my former organization.
12. One of the students ( is, are) awarded by the school administrator.
13. Wearing of shorts ( is, are ) not allowed inside the campus.
14. Dancing Rumba ( is ,are) his favorite activity.
15. Neither his brothers nor Jose ( celebrate, celebrates) the birthday of their mother.
16. Somebody ( talk, talks) to the manager of the hotel.
17. Thirty percent of votes ( is, are) given to Ma. Asuncion de Vega.
18. Almost seventy-five percent of Earth ( is ,are ) water.
19. Three minutes ( is, are) enough to wait you.
20. Every mother and father (is, are) happy to see the guest.