Saturday, March 8, 2014

Exercise AGREEMENT OF THE VERB WITH THE SUBJECT



Exercise
In each of the following sentences supply a Verb in agreement with its Subject :-
1. To take pay and then not to do work --- dishonest.
2. The cost of all these articles --- risen.
3. The jury --- divided in their opinions.
4. That night every one of the boat's crew --- down with fever.
5. One or the other of those fellows --- stolen the watch.
6. The strain of ail the difficulties and vexations and anxieties --- more than he could bear.
7. No news --- good news.
8. The accountant and the cashier --- absconded.
9. A good man and useful citizen --- passed away.
10. The famous juggler and conjurer --- too unwell to perform.
11. The Three Musketeers --- written by Dumas.
12. Each of the suspected men --- arrested.
13. The ebb and flow of the tides --- explained by Newton.
14. Ninety rupees --- too much for this bag.
15. The cow as well as the horse --- grass.
16. Neither his father nor his mother --- alive.
17. There --- many objections to the plan.
18. Two-thirds of the city --- in ruins.
19. The formation of paragraphs --- very important.
20. Man's happiness or misery --- in a great measure in his own hands.


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