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Subject-Verb Agreement - 9 Worksheet

1. The document provides examples of subject-verb agreement in sentences. 2. It then provides sentences with errors in subject-verb agreement and asks the reader to identify and correct the errors. 3. The examples are meant to illustrate proper subject-verb agreement and common errors.

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Subject-Verb Agreement - 9 Worksheet

1. The document provides examples of subject-verb agreement in sentences. 2. It then provides sentences with errors in subject-verb agreement and asks the reader to identify and correct the errors. 3. The examples are meant to illustrate proper subject-verb agreement and common errors.

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1.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate subject-verb agreement:


i) The cost of all these articles ______has______ risen.
ii) That night every one of the boat’s crew _____was______ down with fever.
iii) One or the other of those fellows ____has_______ stolen the watch.
iv) No news ___is_____ good news.
v) The accountant and the cashier _____have______ absconded.
vi) A good man and useful citizen ______has_______ passed away.
vii) Each of the suspected men _____was ______ arrested.
viii) The ebb and flow of the tides ____was_____ explained by Newton.
ix) Neither his father nor his mother ____is______ alive.
x) Two-thirds of the city _____is_____ in ruins.
xi) The cow as well the horse ____eats____ grass.
xii) The Three Musketeers ____is____ written by Dumans.
xiii) Nine hundred rupees ___is____ too much for this bag.
xiv) To take pay and not to do work ____is____ dishonesty.

2. In each of the following sentences, there is an error. Find out the error and
provide the correction. First one has been done as an example.
Error Correction

The quality of the apples are


_______is,
not good. Many of them is (a) _____are, is_____
are________
rotten.
Cause of worries are that the
(b) ______are_________ _______is_______
children

does not know the fact. (c) _____does__________ ______do________

(ii) Error Correction

Each century warm the


(a) _______warm________ _________warms_____
earth.

But in the last century,


(b) ___have____________ _______has________
there have been a

phenomenal increases

in the earth’s (c) _______increases________ _______increase_____

temperature.

(i) Error Correction


It were dark and cold in
(a) _____were__________ _______was________
the garden.

Rain is falling. A damp


(b) ______is_________ ________was_______
cutting wind

were racing through


(c) ______were_________ _______was________
the garden.

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