Subject-Verb Agreement
Singular verbs must accompany ____, and ____ must accompany plural subjects according to subject-verb agreement.
What are singular subjects and plural verbs?
Decide whether the following sentence is true or false.
An antecedent is a word to which a late pronoun refers back.
What is true?
You lie down for a nap.
State the tense for "lie".
What is present tense?
To describe a noun, use a(n) _____.
What is an adjective?
Examine or insect closely and thoroughly.
What is scrutinize?
Correct the sentence.
Abby's favorite movies is Jurassic Park and The Conjuring.
What is "are" instead of "is"?
Diego was contemplating between going to the baseball game with Daniel or going out for dinner with his family.
State the antecedent to which "his" refers.
Who is Diego?
You lay something down on the table.
"Lay" is ____ tense.
What is past?
______ compare one thing to another.
What are comparative modifiers?
Rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.
What is fluctuate?
Collective nouns can either be ____ or ____.
What is singular or plural?
In everyday speech, we tend to attempt gender neutrality by using ____ instead of "his" or "her".
What is "their"?
You ___ down yesterday.
What is "lay"?
_______ tell you how one thing compare to everything else.
What are superlative modifiers?
A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
What is nuance?
The woman owns twelve cats.
What are "owns" and "cats"?
Anna went swimming with Isabelle, however when she came out of the water, she discovered her bracelet was missing.
State the antecedent to which "her" refers.
Who is Anna?
You swim to the middle of the lake yesterday.
Correct the mistake.
What is "swam" instead of "swim"?
Decide whether the following sentence is complete or incomplete.
Finished the assignment already.
What is an incomplete sentence?
Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
Collective ____ can either be singular or plural. It depends on whether the ____ is being treated as a single unit or as divided individuals.
What are "nouns" and "noun"?
Matt and Steve went to Carl's house and played video games all night in his basement.
State the antecedent to which "his" refers.
Who is Carl?
Lia swam in the lake everyday as a child.
Correct the mistake.
What is "had swum" instead of "swam"?
And, or, for, nor, so, but, yet are examples of ______.
What are conjunctions?
Childishly sulky or bad tempered.
What is petulant?