Avoiding Errors with Indefinite Pronouns

Directions:

Underline the word that correctly completes each sentence below.

Example:

Everyone (complains, complain) when gas prices go up.

  1. Most of Benito’s shirts (has, have) at least one pocket.
  2. Somebody (is, are) addressing all the wedding invitations with a fountain pen.
  3. Everyone in the Hundley family (buys, buy) a new toothbrush twice a year.
  4. Few of my friends (dislikes, dislike) both crunchy peanut butter and the smooth variety.
  5. Each of the messages on the answering machine (is, are) for Dody.
  6. Everybody (benefits, benefit) from getting a flu shot.
  7. Nobody (remembers, remember) that the space between the thumb and the first finger is called the purlicue.
  8. Some of the children (stops, stop) at the ice cream shop every day.
  9. Nothing (ends, end) the baby’s crying except being rocked in the rocking chair.
  10. All of the workers who enter by the main gate (passes, pass) through a metal detector.

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