BÀI GIẢNG ANH 12: S v agreement +BÀI TẬP

1 Underline the complex noun that is subject; 2 circle the main noun in the subject; 3 write the verb in brackets in the space either as a singular verb or plural verb so that it agrees

Exercise 1 (1) Underline the complex noun that is subject; (2) circle the main noun in the

subject; (3) write the verb in brackets in the space either as a singular verb or plural verb so that it agrees with the main noun.(Gạch chân cụm danh từ làm chủ ngữ, khoanh tròn danh từ làm chủ ngữ chính và chia động từ trong ngoặc số ít- số nhiều)

1 The issues which have been considered in the previous section ……… us to speculate in the problems that learners might encounter (allow)

2 Smuggling illegal immigrants out of Mexico ……… against the law (be)

3 The country’s first general election since it won independence ………… to be held next month (be)

4 The only people who are interested in the book ………… to be lawyers (seem)

5 The view of the manufacturing and tourist industries ……… that the economy is improving (be)

6 An early analysis of the results ……… that the Socialists have won (show)

7 Reliance only on written tests of English to measure language ability ……… to be a cheap option (appear)

Exercise 2 Complete the sentences with either is/are or has/have If both singular and plural forms are possible, write them both

1 A number of shoppers ……… complained about the price increases

2 I can assure you that everything ………… perfectly safe

3 Either of the dentists ……… available Which one do you want to see?

4 The majority of primary school teachers ………… women

5 Each of Susan’s colleagues ………… sent her a personal letter of support

6 Although some people find cricket boring, each match ……… different

7 All of the office staff ………… agreed to work late tonight to get the job finished

8 A lot of the pollution ………… caused by the paper factory on the edge of town

SUBJECT AND VERB AGREEMENT

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Giáo viên: Nguyễn Thanh Hương

9 None of the TV programmes ……… worth watching tonight

10 I hope everyone ……… a good holiday See you next term

11 The number of pupils in school with reading difficulties ………… fallen this year

12 Some people ………… the strangest hobbies My brother collects bottles

13 None of the information ………… particularly useful to me

Exercise 3: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions

Question 1 Neither the students nor their lecturer _English in the classroom

Question 2 If either of you take a vacation now, we won’t be able to finish this work

Question 3: What we know about certain diseases are still not sufficient to prevent them from

spreading easily among the population

Question 4 Today the number of people who enjoys winter sports is almost double that of twenty

Question 5 have made communication faster and easier through the use of email and the Internet is widely recognized

Question 7 Everyone in both cars injured in the accident last night, ?

Question 10 The poet and the writer _ from London

A. come B. has came C. comes D. is coming

Question 11 The world is becoming more (A) industrialized and the number of animal (B) species that have become (C) extinct (D) have increased

Question 12 The amounts of (A) oxygen and nitrogen in the air almost always remain stable, but the amount of water vapor vary considerably

Question 13 The shocking news in newspapers are what people are talking about this morning

Question 14 My dog my cats eats twice a day

Question 15 Air pollution, together with littering, are causing many problems in your large,

industrial cities today

Question 16 This orange juice _ awful I bet you _ it,

Question 17 On (A) the floor of the Pacific Ocean is (B) hundreds of (C) flat-topped mountains more than (D) a mile beneath sea level

Question 18 Both Tuan and Thanh has been to Paris before

Question 19 They was told to plan everything very carefully before the journey

Question 20 A large number of reporters at the meeting yesterday

Question 21 Buying clothes are (A) often a very time-consuming (B) practice because those (C) clothes that a person likes are rarely the ones (D) that fit him or her

Question 22 Since the flood the number of homeless people _ dramatically

Question 23 Each of the members of the group were made to write a report every week

Question 24 Psychologists have found that the number of social contacts we have only

reason for loneliness

Question 25 Not only the athlete but also his wife are going to the party tonight

A. not only B. but C. are D. the

Question 26 The assumption that smoking has bad effects on our health have been proved

Question 27 Mrs Stevens, along with her cousins from New Mexico, are planning to attend the

festivies

Question 28 Three years too long for me to school

Question 29.The students, along with the teacher, _ coming to the meeting

Question 30 The Prime Minister, accompanied by the Ministers, going to the meeting

Question 31 – (Đề TN 2007 lần 1) Neither you nor I _ responsible for the bad result

Question 32 The existence of many stars in the sky _ us to suspect that there may be life on another planet

Question 33.Neither Tom nor his brothers _ willing to help their mother with the housework

Question 34.The numbers of cars on the roads _ increasing, so we need to build more roads

Question 35 The superstar, accompanied by the other members of the band, _ to visit our

school next week

Question 36 It was announced that neither the passengers nor the driver _ in the crash

Question 37 Only one of our gifted students _ to participate in the final competition

Question 38 A number of students coming to the seminar

Question 39 To meet the customers’ demand _ our first priority.

Question 40 The only excuse that he gave for his actions that he wanted to protect himself

Giáo viên: Nguyễn Thanh Hương

Nguồn : Hocmai