For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.
For help with this exercise, see chapter 24 of Real Essays 5e.
Example
Everyone in my college writing class (speaks, speak) English better than I do.
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A few of the students (is, are) native speakers of English, but everybody else is learning English as a second language.
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Many of the students (is, are) from Spanish-
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Several of the best students in the class (is, are) from Haiti, where they grew up speaking a dialect of French called Creole.
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One of my closest friends in the class (comes, come) from Korea and moved here just six months ago.
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Both of us (lives, live) with our parents, and we commute to school on the same bus.
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No one who is in my class (speaks, speak) English the way you hear it spoken on television and in the movies.
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Each of us (studies, study) hard, but I think that I work the hardest.
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Unfortunately, none of my hard work (seems, seem) to have paid off yet.
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Neither of my parents (speaks, speak) much English, so maybe that’s why I’m having such a hard time.
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