Subject-Verb Agreement Retest
1. Nobody in all of my classes was/were able to predict the outcome of today's game.
2. Here is/are my favorite dish, macaroni and cheese.
3. Two enormous vineyards, both owned by the same woman, was/were at the foot of the mountain.
4. A small percentage of the crops was/were ruined by the prolonged rain.
5. Most parents mistakenly think that mumps has/have been eliminated as a childhood disease.
6. Each of the dogs is/are sick.
7. Some of the steaks is/are cold.
8. She is one of the teachers who talk/talks too much.
9. These is/are a collection of valuable nineteenth-century manuscripts.
10. The man and his wife contribute/contributes each year to the scholarship.
11. Either your friends or your girlfriend, not both, is/are able to come with us.
12. The herd of sheep contain/contains only one lamb.
13. That guy don’t/doesn’t know what he is talking about.
14. A number of people is/are concerned about the cost of fuel during the cold winter months.
15. The number of people concerned about the cost of fuel is/are rising as the weather gets colder.
16. Every reporter for all the newspapers research/researches his subject first.
17. The United Arab Emirates, a small nation on the Arabian peninsula, has/have a small Catholic
population.
18. Neither you nor I want/wants you to fail this test.
19. The Future Business Leaders of America meet/meets once a month.
20. Swimming is/are one of the best ways to get into shape.