Avoid Errors when Verbs follow Subjects Answers
Directions:
Underline the word that correctly completes each sentence below.
Example:
There (was, were) open-top cars, boxcars, and flatcars on the
freight train.
- In the basement of the White House (is, are) bombproof rooms
containing an emergency command post.
- Where (is, are) the baggage compartment on this bus?
- Among the space junk orbiting the earth (is, are) discarded
bolts, springs, and cables.
- Here (is, are) the washers and slugs that people tried to
use in Rock Valley’s parking meters.
- At the top of the list of the most commonly used words in the English
language (is, are) the word the.
- Outside Terry’s back door (is, are) a narrow slab of
concrete she calls her patio.
- Among the most commonly treated phobias (is, are)
agoraphobia, the fear of open or public places.
- On the ocean liner (is, are) a theater and lecture hall, a
jogging track, a miniature golf course, and a shopping arcade.
- There (is, are) no proof that vitamins help prevent colds.
- In Christine’s wallet (is, are) pictures of her two
children and her sister’s dog.
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