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Station 1: Money, Weights, Time
Subject/Verb Agreement rule:
Given Example:
Create your own example:
Do the following problems:
1. Five thousand dollars was/were awarded to the plaintiff.
2. Research shows that brains of healthy but physically inactive people who exercise 45 to 60 minutes three times a week increases/increase in size.
3. Five dollars is/are too much to ask.
4. Ten days is/are not nearly enough time.
5. There was/were thirty minutes to countdown.
Station 2: Some, Any, All, and Most
Subject/Verb Agreement rule:
Given Example:
Create your own example:
Do the following problems:
1. Most of the news is/are good.
2. Most of the flowers were/was yellow
3. All of the pizza was/were gone.
4. All of the children was/were late.
5. Some houses in the countryside of Nepal is/are made of cow dung, mud, sand, and clay.
Station 3: Fractions
Subject/Verb Agreement rule:
Given Example:
Create your own example:
Do the following problems:
1. Two-fifths of the forest has/have died.
2. Three-sevenths of the children was/were living in poverty.
3. One half of the students has/have a computer at home.
4. One quarter of the money will go to charity.
5. One half of the faculty is/are busy.
Station 4: Titles
Subject/Verb Agreement rule:
Given Example:
Create your own example:
Do the following problems:
1. Wuthering Heights was/were written by Emily Bronte.
2. We read an excerpt from The Refugees which was/were Nguyen’s second novel.
3. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare has/have been adapted into the modern film She’s the Man.
4. O Me O Life by Walt Whitman is/are quoted in the film Dead Poets’ Society.
5. The Hunger Games is/are very popular.
Station 5: Turned- Around sentences
Subject/Verb Agreement rule:
Given Example:
Create your own example:
Do the following problems:
1. There is/are a lot of people in this class.
2. Where are/is your chair?
3. Here is/are your tickets to the show.
4. There is/are an open seat in the back.
5. Where are/is the granola bars in the office?
Homework:
Enclose in parentheses all prepositional phrase and phrases that begin with along with, as well as, together with, in addition to, including, and no less than in each sentence. Then read the sentences without the phrases. Underline the subject one and circle the correct verb.
Example: In the jungle, one out of every four lion cubs starves/starve to death.
Answer: (In the jungle), one (out of every four lion cubs) starves to death.
1. Not one of the President’s closest advisors was/were willing to tell him he was making a mistake.
2. Neither of us wants/want to believe that Minneapolis has a law that anyone who double parks a car will be put on a chain gang with only bread and water to eat.
3. The Consumer Price Index, as well as the Gross National Product and the unemployment rate, indicates/indicate trends in the economy.
4. There’s/There are about 1500 volcanoes on land and 10,000 at sea.
5. Her credit card bill stated that forty dollars was/were still past due on her account.
6. Here’s/Here are some menus for you.
7. Either of these streets is/are a quicker route than taking Haywood.
8. Orville Wright, along with his brother Wilber, was/were responsible for the first powered airplane flight in history on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hank, North Carolina.
9. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen makes/make up 90% of the human body.
10. There’s/There are some classrooms on the African continent where 20 children share one textbook.
11. The Ad Council, together with America’s Second Harvest, is/are educating Americans about the 13 million children who sometimes don’t get enough to eat.
12. Where’s/Where are your passport and credit cards?
13. Water, electricity, and gas has/have been free to residents of Turkmenistan since 1991.
14. One of President Calvin Coolidge’s favorite practical jokes was/were to press all the call buttons on his desk and then hide behind his door.
15. Each of these commas needs/need to be removed.
16. Flavored milk, including chocolate milk, has/have more calories than soft drinks.
17. One of the most persistent beliefs from the ancient Romans onward is/are that the number 13 is unlucky and perhaps dangerous.
18. Overweight children with high cholesterol or high blood pressure is/are much more likely than children with normal readings to have heart disease or strokes by their 03’s or 40’s.
19. According to historians, one third of cowboys in the early American West was/were African American.
20. In Finland long periods of silence in a business meeting is/are common.
21. Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says neither Russia nor China has/have had access to the sensitive documents he took from the spy agency.
22. Certain parts of the very expensive Japanese puffer fish contains/contain a powerful nerve poison that can kill people who accidentally eat it.
23. Though Christina Aguilera is of Ecuadorian descent and recorded an album in Spanish, she doesn’t/don’t speak the language.
24. Each of the soldiers in Genghis Khan’s army was/were made into an executioner after every battle.
25. One of the girls on the top row of the bleachers was/were using binoculars to see her boyfriend on the football field more clearly.
26. The most common name for the fear of open spaces is/are agoraphobia.
27. Each of these coats of arms has/have a unique combination of colors and symbols.
28. The most frequent complaint of working people is/are noisy co-workers.
29. Neither of the dragons in this story seems/seem really scary.
30. Either the subway system of Tokyo or Moscow carries/carry the greatest number of passengers per year.