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11/5 Agreement warm-up #1. 1.) Many examples that he talks about (is/are) on culture. 2.) The tornadoes that tear through this county every spring (is/are) more than just a nuisance. 3.) Every student in all the high schools (is/are) Going on the field trip.
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11/5 Agreement warm-up #1 1.) Many examples that he talks about (is/are) on culture. 2.) The tornadoes that tear through this county every spring (is/are) more than just a nuisance. 3.) Every student in all the high schools (is/are) Going on the field trip. 4.) Kara Walters, together with her teammates, (scores/score) top scores on the basketball court. 5.) Some of the votes (seem/seems) to have been miscounted.
11/5 Agreement warm-up #1 Rule 1: Use verbs that agree with a subject, not with a noun that is part of a modifying phrase or clause between verb and subject: “The pot of eggs is boiling on the stove.”
11/7 Agreement warm-up #2 1.)Each (do/does) a great does of work. 2.) Every Wednesday the staff (work/works) late. 3.)One of the Elvis impersonators (is/are) missing. 4.) Both of those cities (were/was) on my vacation route. 5.) I’m sure someone in these two classrooms (has/have) a pen.
11/7 Agreement warm-up #2 Rule 2: Use singular verbs with singular indefinite pronouns — each, the “-bodies,” “-ones,” and “-things” (anybody, everyone, nothing), and the like: • “Everybody is correct.” (And, just as in rule number 1, the presence of a modifier is irrelevant: “Everyone of them is correct.”)
11/19 Agreement warm-up #3 1.) Several examples (is/are) not about your singular thesis. 2.) In “Seeing Through the Rules” there (is/are) two groups that are trying to get along. 3.) There (is/are) millions of people who would rather be poor than ask for government help. 4.) The major problem (is/are) the contradictory findings. 5.) The only thing we (need/needs) now are new books. 6.) The results (is/are) one thing, but we don’t care.
11/19 Agreement warm-up #3 Rule 3: Use singular or plural verbs that agree with the subject, not with the complement of the subject: “My favorite type of movie is comedies,” but “Comedies are my favorite type of movie.”
11/27 Agreement warm-up #4 Rule number 4: Use plural verbs with compound subjects that include and: “The dog and the cat are outside.”
12/5 Agreement warm-up #5 Use plural verbs or singular verbs, depending on the form of the noun nearest the verb, with compound subjects that include nor or or: “Either the dog or the cats are responsible for the mess.” (“Either the cats or the dog is responsible for the mess” is also technically correct but is awkward.)
