Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems with Compound Subjects

For each of the following sentences, choose the form of the verb that agrees with the compound subject.

For help with this exercise, see chapter 24 of Real Essays 5e.

Example

  1. Although a human and a cat (doesn’t, don’t) seem to have much in common, there are animals with great similarities to humans.
    1. doesn’t
    2. don’t
  1. Question 1.148

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  2. Question 1.149

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  3. Question 1.150

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  4. Question 1.151

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  5. Question 1.152

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  6. Question 1.153

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  7. Question 1.154

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  8. Question 1.155

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  9. Question 1.156

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  10. Question 1.157

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