1. Each student was asked to write an essay on the given topic.

(Each is followed by a singular noun and a

singular verb.)

2. Neither Shyam nor Ram was there. (When we connect two singular nouns with neither/nor, the verb is
singular.)

3. My sister along with her family lives in Chennai.

4. There was hardly anything in the box. / There was almost nothing in the box.

5. Tom is the youngest of my four children.

6. The older we grow the wiser we become.

7. There is no light in his room. He must have gone to bed.

8. What would you do if you lost your job?

9. You needn’t have waited for me.

10. She requested me to bring a glass of water.

Answers
1. She would never have changed jobs if she had been promoted.

2. I don't trust these godmen. I never have, and I never will.

3. I am going to do my exams, and afterwards I am planning to study law.

4. I thought I would fail the test, but I passed after all.

5. When I was your age I was working. (There is no preposition in the

structure is/am/are etc. + ... age.)

6. Alice isn't coming to the party. Stella isn't coming either.

7. Grandmother often comes and spends the weekends with us.

8. Did you have any trouble going through the customs?

9. Get that cat off the piano.

10. Maria died on the Friday after the accident.

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(ii) (c) gather
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Answer: b) gets
Answer: b) are playing
Answer: b) have known
Answer: b) has been
Answer:a) left
Answer: b) was writing
Answer: c) had left
Answer: a) had been
Answer: a) will
Answer: b) will be