Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Examples:
Examples:
Examples:
Example:
Examples:
• Neither the BSBA students nor the BSTM students
attend the seminar.
• Either the coach or the player comes on time.
• Neither the principal nor the teachers arrive late at the
assembly.
• Either the president or the secretaries move in the right
direction.
6. Intervening words do not affect the number of
verbs.
Example:
Examples:
Examples:
• A number of people die in Japan earthquake.
• A number of children were affected by the
economic crisis.
• The number of absentees was reduced during
the second quarter.
• The number of ICI enrollees has increased this
school year.
9. An amount of money, space of time, or unit of
measurement even in plural form takes singular
verb.
Examples:
Examples:
Examples:
• My cousin and friend travels to Macau for
educational tour.
• The secretary and treasurer is trustworthy.
12. Title of books, magazines, movies must have a singular
verb.
Examples:
Examples:
Examples:
Examples:
Examples:
• Three- fourth of the melon is enough.
• Three- fourth of the apples are not green.
17. All takes plural verb when it refers to
concrete nouns; all takes singular verb when it
refers to abstract
Examples:
nouns.
• Ex.
• Here are the utensils.
• There is the boy.
If your sentence compounds a positive and a
negative subject and one is plural, the other
singular, the verb should agree with the positive
subject.
Examples:
• The department members but not the chair
have decided not to teach on Valentine's Day.
• It is not the faculty members but the
president who decides this issue.
• It was the speaker, not his ideas, that has
provoked the students to riot.
Nouns ending in ‘s’ like pants, trousers, scissors
1. Either the doctors nor the nurse (know, knows) the
treatment.
2. All of the hope (is, are) gone.
3. A number of leaves ( drop, drops) slowly.
4. Everyone in the lobby (is, are) excited.
5. Not only the instructors but also their student (finish,
finishes) the race.
6. The team ( practice, practices) at the gym.
7. The mayor, together with his sons and daughters (arrive,
arrives) late.
8. The number of employees ( was, were) layed off.
9. Several of the students (prefer, prefers) to be absent.
10. Bread and butter ( is , are) what I ate earlier.
• 1. Either the physicians in this hospital or the chief administrator ____ going to have to make
a decision.
is
are
• 2. ______ my boss or my sisters in the union going to win this grievance?
Is
Are
3. Some of the votes __________ to have been miscounted.
seem
seems
• 4. The tornadoes that tear through this county every spring _____ more than just a
nuisance.
are
is
• 5. Everyone selected to serve on this jury _____ to be willing to give up a lot of time.
have
has
• 6. Kara Wolters, together with her teammates, _________ a formidable opponent on the
basketball court.
presents
present
• 7. He seems to forget that there __________ things to be done before he can graduate.
are
is
8. There _______ to be some people left in that town after yesterday's flood.
have
has
9. Some of the grain __________ to be contaminated.
appear
appears
10. Three-quarters of the students __________ against the tuition hike.
is
are
11. Three-quarters of the student body __________ against the tuition hike.
is
are
12. A high percentage of the population _________ voting for the new
school.
is
are
13. A high percentage of the people _________ voting for the new school.
was
were
14. Carlos is the only one of those students who __________ lived up to the
potential described in the yearbook.
has
hav
15. The International Club, as well as the Choral Society and the Rowing Club,
__________ to submit a new constitution.
need
needs
16. One of my best friends _____________ an extra on Seinfeld this week.
are
is
17. Not only the students but also their instructor ________ been called to
the principal's office.
have
has
18. Each and every student and instructor in this building __________ for a new
facility by next year.
hope
hopes
19. Rice and beans, my favorite dish, __________ me of my native Puerto Rico.
remind
reminds