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1. [That guy from Spanish class] (tripped on his shoelace and knocked me over.)
2. (Someday), [I] (will drive a fast car on the Utah salt flats.)
3. (Before evening), [Amy and her group] (will need ten more reams of paper).
4. [The Matrix Revolutions, the third installment of the Matrix Trilogy], (is an
allegory to the New Testament of the Bible.)
5. (Four score and seven years ago), [our fathers] (brought forth on this continent
a new nation) Gettysburg Address
Subject-Verb Agreement
In the following sentences, do the following:
Identify whether the subject and verb agree. If they agree, youre done
If they do not agree, draw a line through the word or words that need to change for the
subject and verb to agree and rewrite them above (assume that you can only change the
grammatical elements of the sentence and not the meaning of the sentence)
Ex.
has
1. Alex, Jessie, and Sarah goes to the store together every Saturday.
is
2. Either Jessie or Alex are going to buy a toaster that burns the Suns logo onto
bread.
has
adj.
DO
ate
donut
Adj.
S V
V IO adj. adj.
DO
Prep. Adj. OP
adj. PN adv.
Adj.
PN
Prep. OP
IO adj.
DO
OP
Adj.
Prep. Adj. OP
5. Karen is far too angry about that whoopee cushion on her chair.
Adj.
PA
adv.
Adv.
PA
S V adv. V
adj.
DO
Adv. S V
V adj.
DO
DO adv.
Ex.
Write the PNGC for the pronoun you need to replace the underlined noun.
Replace the underlined word with the correct pronoun. Use the chart you copied into your
composition notebook for reference.
her
I dont understand why he hates Tinas guts. (3, S, F, P adj.)
him
2. [The speaker] want to eat candy and poop emeralds; (1, S, M/F, N)
you
4. Hey! Keep [belonging to the people being spoken to] wrists straight or you will
hurt yourselves! (2, P, M/F, P adj.)
yours
5. Which one is [the one belonging to the speaker]? (1, S, M/F, P noun)
He
7. Jumanji and Zathura are scarier than most kids movies. (3, P, N, N)
It
9. [The alarm clocks] hour hand is broken and will fall behind an hour sometimes.
(3, S, N, P adj.)
it
10. You probably havent heard of [something a hipster is being all smug for
knowing about]. (3, S, N, O)