VERB TEST

Circle the subjects and underline the correct verbs in the sentences below.

(NOTICE: Many of the sentences contain more than one clause.)

Hypnosis Essay (30 Choices, Present Tenses)

1. Most people (considers, considering, consider) hypnosis a hoax, but it really (are, be, is) a science. 2. Hypnosis (consist, consisting, consists) of three parts: induction, hypnotic trance, and conclusion. 3. Hypnotists (induce, inducing, induces) the hypnotic state in a variety of ways. 4. The usual techniques (employ, employing, employs) direct commands that (is, be, are) repeated again and again. 5. For example, the hypnotist (instruct, instructs,instructing) the subject to stare at a spot on the ceiling, to relax, to breathe deeply, and then to let his or her eyelids grow heavy and close. 6. Sometimes the subject (respond, responds,responding) to a story or puzzle that (suggest, suggesting, suggests) relaxation and sleep.

7. “Truth serums” such as sodium pentothal (is, be, are) occasionally used to induce hypnosis, but most professionals (does, doing, do) not use them.

8. Once the subject (fall, falling, falls) into a trance, hypnotic suggestion (begin, begins, beginning). 9. Under the hypnotist’s directions, people’s experiences (vary, varying, varies) greatly. 10. Some people (recall, recalling, recalls) painful memories that (help, helping, helps) them overcome a psychological problem. 11. In another form of suggestion called “time regression,” the doctor (take, taking, takes) the hypnotized person back to his or her childhood, or even supposedly to a previous lifetime. 12. The patient may (behave, behaves,behaving) in a childlike way. 13. A person usually (remain, remaining, remains) in a hypnotic state until given a signal by the hypnotist to awaken. 14. Afterward, he or she often (remember, remembering, remembers) nothing of the experience.

15. There (is, be, are) many uses for hypnosis. 16. Scientific experiments using hypnosis (reveal, revealing, reveals) important information about the mind and about human behavior. 17. Hypnosis (soothe, soothing, soothes) some patients who (suffer, suffering, suffers) from great pain or anxiety. 18. Others (control, controlling, controls) or even (solve, solving, solves) problem habits such as eating disorders or smoking. 19. Through hypnosis, a witness or victim of a crime sometimes (remember, remembering, remembers) a detail that (solve, solving, solves) the case. 20. With all these many uses, hypnosis (are, being, is) still not widely practiced. 21. It (are, be, is) not completely trusted because of side effects such as false memories.

Everglades Essay (21 Choices, Past Tenses)

22. The day (begin, began, begun) early at the Flamingo Campground in EvergladesNational Park. 23. It (was, were, being) only sixa.m. 24. As a morning breeze (gust, gusting, gusted) inland off the bay, gulls and terns (rode, ridden, riding) the air currents overhead. 25. Wings outstretched, they (maked, making, made) beautiful patterns in the sky. 26. In contrast, white egrets (stood, stoods, standing) motionless in the tall grass near the water. 27. Huge brown pelicans (lounging, lounges, lounged) on the posts of the dock.

28. People (getting, got, gotten) up early here, too. 29. In the cabin of a docked house-boat, a slender man and woman dressed in terry-cloth (read, reads, reading) the morning newspaper. 30. Several folks were (making, makes, made) their plans for the long day ahead as they (eating, eats, ate) their eggs and (drinking, drank, drunk) their coffee in the water-front cafe. 31. Joggers (taking, taken, took) advantage of the early morning cool air as they (ran, running, runs) along the well-marked trails in their multicolored sweat-suits. 32. A few daring souls (jumps, jumping, jumped) off the dock into the chilly lagoon water, after checking to make sure no alligators (being, was, were) there. 33. Several fishing parties (set, sets, setting) off in their boats. 34. They were (head, heads, heading) south into the bay, or were (paddle, paddling, paddled) northwest into the endless canals. 35. One early morning crew of Seminole and MiccosukeeIndians already had (catched, caught, catching) their quota of swamp creatures for the day. 36. They (displays, displayed, displaying) several turtles and a basket of muddy crawfish.

Revised 25February 2010