Exercise: Exercise 1: Choose The Best Answer To Complete The Blank in Each of The Following

EXERCISE
Exercise 1: Choose the best answer to complete the blank in each of the following
sentences.
1. Each student………. answered the first three questions.
a. has b. have c. have to d. must
2. Either John or his wife ………breakfast each morning.
a. make b. is making c. makes d. made
3. Everybody who ………. a fever must go home at once.
a. has b. have c. is having d. are having
4. Five dollars ………all I have on me.
a. are b. is c. will be d. have
5. John, along with twenty friends, ………. planning a party.
a. are b. is c. has been d. have been
6. Mathematics……….. the science of quantity.
a. was b. are c. is d. were
7. Measles………cured without much difficulty nowadays.
a. is b. are c. will be d. have
8. Neither Mary nor her brothers……a consent form for tomorrow’s field trip.
a. need b. needs c. is needing d. has need
9. Peter, together with his uncle, ……………fishing.
a. have gone b. has gone c. go d. goes
10. The army…………. eliminated this section of the training test.
a. has b. is having c. are d. have
Exercise 2: Put the verbs in the correct form.
1. What we need most (be)________books.
2. The English (be) ________proud and independent people.
3. The United States (have) ________a population of 250 million.
4. There (be, not) ________any letters in the mail for you today.
5. Everyone in both cars (be) ________injured in the accident last night.
6. The books borrowed from the library (be) ________on my desk now.
7. The boy who won the two medals (be) ________ a friend of mine.
8. Bread and butter (be) ________our daily food.
9. The quality of the candies (be) ________poor.
10. Gold, as well as platinum, (have) ________recently risen in price.
Exercise 3: Correct the sentences which are wrong.
1. The president, surrounded by secret service agents, is trying to make his way to the
podium.
2. The buildings is destroyed during the fire are being rebuilt at the taxpayers’ expense.
3. 20 percent of the forest has been destroyed lately.
4. The witnesses saw that most of the fire in the hills was extinguished.
5. Some of the animals from the zoo was released into the animals preserve.
6. All of the students in the class taught by Professor Roberts is required to turn in their
term papers next Monday.
7. Half of the food that we are serving to the guests is still in the refrigerator.
8. We believe that some of the employees is going to get promoted soon.
9. The people in the apartment next to mine are giving a party this evening.
10. Each of the doctors in the building need to have a separate reception area.
Exercise 4: Finding mistakes:
1. Geography are fascinating.
2. Where is my gloves?
3. Each ticket costed $5.
4. The boy with his dog are here.
5. John or Tom are bringing the car.
6. His hair are turning gray.
7. Are there anybody at home?
8. Neither praise nor blame seem to affect him.
9. Three fourths of his fortune were devoted to scientific research.
10. Two-thirds of these books is novels.
11. There are a car and two vans in front of my house.
12. Why is the police standing there?
13. So far everything is all right.
14. Fifty minutes are the maximum length of time allotted for the exam.
15. None of my classmates speaks Arabic.
16. Every student are tested twice a year.
17. Each of the items in the bill are correct.
18. 10 years in prison were too long for him.
19. None of the children were awake.
Exercise 5: Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject.
1. The trousers you bought for me (doesn't/ don't) fit me.
2. Physics (was/ were) my best subject at school.
3. Fortunately the news (wasn't/ weren't) as bad as we had expected.
4. The police (wants/ want) to interview Fred about a robbery.
5. Three days (isn't/ aren't) long enough for a good holiday.
6. Where (does/ do) your family live?
7. England (have/ has) lost all their football matches this season.
8. (Does/ Do) the police know about the stolen money?
9. Can I borrow your scissors? Mine (isn't/ aren't) sharp enough,
10. I'm going to take a taxi. Six miles (is/ are) too far for me to walk.
11. John, along with twenty friends, (is/ are) planning a party.
12. The picture of the soldiers (bring/ brings) back a lot of memories.
13. If the duties of these officers (isn't/ aren't) reduced, there will not be enough time
to finish the project.
14. Advertisements on television (is/ are) becoming more competitive than ever
before.
15. Living expenses in this country, as well as in many others, (is/are) at an all-time
high.
16. Mr. Jones, accompanied by several members of the committee, (have/ has)
proposed some changes of the rules.
17. The levels of intoxication (vary/ varies) from subject to subject.
18. Anything (is/ are) better than going to another movie tonight.
19. Skating (is/ are) becoming more popular every day.

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