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GRAMMAR REVIEW 2
Subject-Verb Agreement
Instructions: Circle the correct verb.
1) Neither the practical training nor the courses I took (was were) able to prepare me
for the job.
2) Onions, sad movies, or happiness (is are) likely to make her cry.
3) The whole computer package, including monitor, disk drive, printer and software
(is are) too expensive for us.
4) So far, no one but Jessica Fletcher (seem seems) entitled to the money.
5) Each of the contestants (hope hopes) to be chosen.
6) My department (pride prides) itself on a high degree of efficiency.
7) The budget committe (fight fights) among themselves continually.
8) Seven hours of classes (is are) too much for one day.
9) Twenty centimetres of snow in six hours (was were) enough to close the roads.

Tense Consistency
Instructions: Use the first verb in each sentence as your time marker and change the
tense(s) of the other verb(s) to agree with it.
1) Allan went home and tells Guljan what happened.

2) Kristi was so tired that, about ten minutes after class started, she goes right to sleep.

3) Are you going to this weeks game? Itll be sure to be the best one of the series.

4) The Peter Principle states that every employee will rise to his or her level of
incompetence.

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Parallelism
Instructions: Rewrite the sentences so they are parallel.
1) Ms. Roberts assigns two hours of homework every night, and were expected to do
an essay each week.

2) A course in logical reasoning will help us evaluate what we read and making sound
decisions.

Punctuation
Instructions: Correct the punctuation in each sentence.
1) Arnold is an all round athlete; he enjoys skating skiing cycling and fencing.

2) Not surprisingly a recent study of driver stress shows that aggressive behaviour
such as flashing lights at other drivers increases during heavy traffic.

3) Please pay attention for the instructions are a little complicated.

4) Carefully placing one foot in front of the other she managed to walk along the white
line for several metres.

5) He couldnt sleep all night and found the same images recurring in his dreams a
river and a wolf.

6) Dogs have many qualities that make them superior to cats; loyalty, inteligence,
working ability, and friendliness.

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Combining Sentences
Instructions: Combine the following sentences.
1) Vesna hates tomatoes.
She planted tomatoes anyway.
She planted tomatoes to please her husband.

2) The chocolate sauce was rich.

The chocolate sauce was dark.
The chocolate sauce was unbelievably sweet.
The chocolate sauce covered my ice cream.
The chocolate sauce was like a thick blanket.

3) Canada has some unusual place names.

These names appear all across the country.
These place names are often amusing to people who dont live there.
Saskatchewan has a particularly large number of peculiar place names.
Cut Knife is an example. Moose Jaw is an example. Cudworth is an example.
Climax is perhaps the most famous example.
Newfoundland also has many strange place names.
Jerrys Nose is an example. Fogo is an example. Bumble Bee Bright is an example.
Come-by-Chance is an example.
These names often sound strange to outsiders.