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Class: A 2019
TOEFL Asiggnment
Write 20 sentences which express Subject- Verb agreement and Expression of
Quantity
Answear
With a singular or non-count noun or clause, use a singular verb:
1. One-third of this article is taken up with statistical analysis.
2. Much of the book seems relevant to this study.
3. Half of what he writes is undocumented.
4. Fifty percent of the job is routine.
5. All the information is current
With a collective noun, use either a singular or a plural verb, depending on whether you want to
emphasize the single group or its individual members:
When majority/minority mean a specific percentage, you may use either a singular or a plural verb:
1. A 75% majority have/has voted against the measure.
2. A 10% minority are/is opposed to the measure.
Adjectives preceded by the and used as plural nouns take a plural verb:
1. The rich get richer.
2. The poor face many hardships.
Expressions using the phrase number of depend on the meaning of the phrase:
1. They take a singular verb when referring to a single quantity:
2. The number of students registered in the class is 20.
3. They take plural verbs when they are used as indefinite quantifiers (see rule 1 above):
4. A number of students were late.