AGREEMENT
A sentence is composed of (a) a subject–who or what (b) a predicate or verb (c) an object. It is important that the subject and predicate (or verb) agree in number: singular or plural.
EXERCISE: AGREEMENT OFSUBJECT AND PREDICATE (verb)
Singular verb Plural verb
Is Are
Was were
Has have
Place the word (verb) that agrees with the word (subject) in italics in the following sentences.
1. ---- there a box for these dominoes?
2. ---- there been a reduction in prices?
3. ----- there any clothes in the dryer?
4. ----- there telephones 100 years ago?
5. ----- there anyone upstairs?
6. ----- there 100 people in the hall?
7. ----- there any books in the cupboard?
8. ------ there been any birds in the garden?
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