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I (knew/new) statistics would be a difficult (course, coarse).
What is knew and course?
What is/are the noun(s): Many people join programs at their local fitness centres.
What is people, programs and centres?
Find the subject & the verb: A passport is necessary for any travel outside of Canada.
What is passport (subject) and is (verb)?
You (was, were) wrong to assume that because the instructor gave you a D, he dislikes you.
What is were?
Our cats and dog (stays, stay) at a neighbour's house when we go on vacation.
What is stay?
She paid her friend a (complement, compliment) and waited to see its (effect, affect).
What is compliment and effect?
What is/are the preposition(s): An ant was crawling up the teacher's leg.
What is up? {up connects leg with the word crawling}
Find the subject & the verb: I find old record players in thrift stores all the time.
What is I (subject) and find (verb)?
To my surprise, my little sister (did, done) a terrific job of cleaning the house.
What is did?
The scratches and dents on our new car (was, were) definitely our son's fault.
What is were?
You probably should (have, of) followed your (conscious, conscience) and told the truth from the beginning.
What is have and conscience?
What is/are the adjective(s): The shaggy dog lay down on a worn mat in front of the fireplace.
What is shaggy and worn? {shaggy describes the noun dog and worn describes the noun mat}
Find the subject & the verb: Here is the instruction booklet to help us assemble the bookcase.
What is booklet (subject) and is (verb)?
I (look, looked) all over for my keys and finally found them in my coat pocket.
What is looked?
My accounting course and statistics course (requires, require) long written reports.
What is require?
Some of the best (advise, advice) she got from her father was to pay down the interest and some of the (principle, principal) on her credit card debt.
What is advice and principal?
What is/are the adverb(s): The chef yelled angrily at the new kitchen helper.
What is angrily? {the adverb angrily describes the verb yelled}
Find the subject & the verb: An old grey cat walked along the sidewalk.
What is cat (subject) and walked (verb)?
After the campers had (drove, driven) away, they looked back and (saw, seen) their dog running after them.
What is driven and saw?
The workers behind the counter (like, likes) to joke with their customers.
What is like?
I need to check my (breaks, brakes) before I can (accept, except) my cousin's invitation to her cottage.
What is brakes and accept?
What is/are the interjection(s): Oh, we're late for class.
What is Oh?
Find the subject & the verb: Many community colleges have famous alumni.
What is colleges (subject) and have (verb)?
Before the writing course ended, students had (read, readed) fifteen essays, had (wrote, written) ten short papers, and had (took, taken) a midterm and a final exam.
What is read, written, and taken?
The instructions for downloading software from the Internet (is, are) confusing for many people.
What is are?