Exercise 110. SOLUTION TO WREN AND MARTIN
In each of the following sentences supply a
Verb in agreement with its Subject.
1. To take pay and not to work is dishonest.
2. The cost of all these articles
has risen.
3. The jury are/were divided in their opinions.
4. That night every one of the
boat’s crew was down with fever.
5. One or the other of those
fellows has stolen the watch.
6. The strain of all the
difficulties and vexations and anxieties was more than he could bear.
7. No news is/was good
news.
8. The accountant and the
cashier have absconded.
9. A good man and useful citizen has
passed away.
10. The famous juggler and
conjurer is/was too unwell to perform.
11. The Three Musketeers was
written by Dumas.
12. Each of the suspected men is/was
arrested.
13. The ebb and the flow of the
tides was explained by Newton.
14. Ninety rupees is too
much for this bag.
15. The cow as well as the horse eats
grass.
16. Neither his father nor his
mother is alive.
17. There are many
objections to the plan.
18. Two-thirds of the city is
in ruins.
19. The formation of paragraphs
is very important.
20. Man’s happiness or misery
is in a great measure in his own hands.
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