Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz

One advantage of using a rock tumbler instead of hand polishing the stones are that the tumbler can do the work while you scout for more stones to put in it!

• No Change

• is that

• can be

• is so

“General Australian English” is spoken by the majority of native Australians, and emphasizes shorter vowel sounds and have fewer variations in diction.

• No Change

• but have

• so has

• and has

While there remain skeptics, the ornithology community now generally accepted the existence of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

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• accepts

• is accepting of

• accepting

If a dog happens to live on the urban streets of southwest Africa, it soon learns to deal with a starkly different reality than that of the American pooch.

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• happen

• happening

• happened

It was Carnival season, the time when people from across the province and the world flocking to the old walled city for two weeks of food, drink, revelry, and winter sports.

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• flock

• flocked by

• flocking

In 2009, Libbrecht and Arnold’s experiments revealed that triangular snowflakes begin with the same process of chemical bonding and forms a hexagonal shape.

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• were they to form

• if they formed

• form

Equipment for both types of kayaks are similar.

• No Change

• is

• were

• was

Dickinson’s last twenty years of letters—many over 1,500 words in length—reveals the breadth and depth of her emotions.

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• reveal

• will be revealed

• would have revealed

The size and style of the outfit be not to my liking.

• No Change

• were

• are

• will being

These untruths—whether deliberate exaggerations or slips of the memory—ultimately matters very little, for the autobiography isn’t about the life of Mary Harris Jones.

• No Change

• has matter

• had matters

• matter