Subject-Verb Agreement

During the war __________ wrote a poem for General Washington, who complimented her on her "style and manner".

• Phyllis Wheatley was

• it was Phyllis Wheatley

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Phyllis Wheatley she

________ was initially by horse or foot in the colonial period.

• It was land travel

• Land travel

• That land travel

• Because land travel

In 1736, the number of poor people in Boston receiving public assistance ________ about 4,000.

• was

• were

• it was

• they were

___________, Jupiter Hannon, was the first American black to publish his own verse.

• He was a poet and Baptist preacher of Long Island

• The poet and Baptist preacher of Long Island

• The poet and Baptist preacher of Long Island was

• The poet and he was a Baptist preacher of Long Island

During the eighteenth century, communcation within and between cities _________ at first.

• were difficult

• they were difficult

• difficult

• was difficult

__________ not a single hard-surfaced road during the entire colonial period aside from city streets.

• It was

• There was

• It

• There were

______ in 1776 that the Declaration of Independence was signed.

• It was

• There was

• There

• It

________ more than 300,000 people in Philadelphia by the end of the colonial period, making it the largest city in the colonies.

• There was

• It was

• They were

• There were

In the eighteenth century, _________ not many women who had access to formal education in the colonies.

• there were

• it was

• were

• were there

After the Revolution, although some advances were made in education, ___________ a slow process.

• it was

• it

• were there

• there was