I-Write the correct verb form in the space provided.
_______________1. Physics ( is, are ) not difficult as students think.
_______________2. The news ( spreads, spread ) quickly. _______________3.Mathematics ( is, are ) my favorite subject in high school. _______________4. The number of applicants for contact agents in Skyes ( has, have) continuously risen for the past six months. _______________5. A number of problems about the new modem ( is, are ) coming out. _______________6.They ( has, have ) little time to do anything else. _______________7. Television ( is, are ) also popular with adults. _______________8. Every year, the TV networks ( choose, chooses ) to show their best programs during those months. _______________9. It ( is, are ) you who make me happy. _______________10. Few ( take, takes ) the challenge out of fear. _______________11. Neither the father nor the sons ( know, knows ) how to cook. _______________12. Neither the sons nor the father ( likes, like ) the shoes. _______________13. Either Mary or Jane ( was, were ) tasked with financial matters. _______________14. Either Mary or the girls ( was, were ) tasked with financial matters. _______________15. Nine times nine ( equal , equals) eighty-one _______________16. Five and six ( is, are ) eleven. _______________17. Many students ( are, is ) lining up for the meal of the day. _______________18. Tom and Jerry ( were, was ) his good friends. _______________19. The number of casualties ( are, is ) staggering. _______________20. Neither the servants nor the landlord ( have, has ) doubted the suspect.
II- Identifying True or False: Write TIK if the statement is true and TOK if the statement is false.Underline the word/s that makes the sentence false.
_____1. A verb does not agrees its subject in number.
_____2. A compound subject that designates only one person or thing takes a plural verb. _____3.Compound subjects joined by or, either or , neither nor , take verbs agreeing in number with the subject closer to the verb. _____4. Compound subjects modified by using each or every are regarded as singular and take a plural verb. _____5. A singular subject followed by as well as, with, including with, along with, and together with, takes a plural verb. _____6.When the impersonal pronoun it begins a sentence , it is always followed by a plural verb. _____7. The indefinite pronouns, both, many, several, and few take a singular verb. _____8. Nouns plural in form but singular in use take a plural subject. _____9. Plural verbs are used with mathematical abstraction. _____10. A sentence beginning with the indefinite article a number takes a plural verb; the number takes a singular verb.
III- Fill in the blanks:
1. _____________________ is a short work of fiction.
2. _____________________is one of the earliest and most popular activities of human kind. 3. ____________________is the story line, consisting of events and the actions of the characters. 4. ____________________the central mover of the story. 5. ____________________The time and place in which the story happens. 6. _________________it includes physical and social conditions as well as atmosphere or mood. 7. ___________________the struggle in the story which might be between characters. 8. ___________________ the central idea of the story. 9. A short story consist usually less than _________ words , that aims for unity of theme, effect, and characterization. 10. ______________it may be a person, an animals, or an animated object,.