EXERCISE 21–4Subject-verb agreement
Select the correct verb in each sentence. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.
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Before reaching college, nearly everyone already (knows / know) several facts about fables.
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Fables are short stories that (conveys / convey) a moral.
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Fables nearly always revolve around animals, but animal characters alone (is / are) not a signal that the story is a fable.
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Aesop, to whom most familiar fables in Western culture (has / have) been attributed, lived from 620 to 560 BCE.
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There (is / are) generally only two or three characters in an Aesop fable.
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A crowd of observers almost never (has / have) a role in his stories.
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The subject matter of Aesop’s fables (is / are) nearly always the same. Most of the fables point out the value of common sense or make gentle fun of human failings.
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Since neither foolish behavior nor human failings (seems / seem) to be in short supply, Aesop’s stories continue to be told.
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Aesop’s fables have always attracted a wide audience; adults and children (enjoys / enjoy) them, and almost everyone knows at least one fable.
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“The Fox and the Grapes,” for instance, (is / are) familiar to many children as a story long before they know how to read.
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