Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase

For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.

For help with this exercise, see Chapter 18.

example

Although women in this century (faces, face) less discrimination than ever before, they still encounter many obstacles that men do not.

a. women/faces

b. women/face

c. century/faces

d. century/face

  1. Question

    Gender discrimination in hiring practices (is, are) often hard to prove.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: Gender discrimination in hiring practices (is, are) often hard to prove.

  2. Question

    Gender discrimination would be easier to prove if you could compare hiring outcomes in situations when the gender of job applicants (is, are) known and when it is unknown.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: Gender discrimination would be easier to prove if you could compare hiring outcomes in situations when the gender of job applicants (is, are) known and when it is unknown.

  3. Question

    Exactly this type of comparison between hiring outcomes (is, are) now complete for one group of employers—U.S. symphony orchestras.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: Exactly this type of comparison between hiring outcomes (is, are) now complete for one group of employers—U.S. symphony orchestras.

  4. Question

    A new study of orchestra hiring practices (finds, find) that women are more likely to get a seat in a major orchestra if they audition anonymously.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: A new study of orchestra hiring practices (finds, find) that women are more likely to get a seat in a major orchestra if they audition anonymously.

  5. Question

    Orchestras throughout the country (uses, use) “blind” auditions to evaluate musicians and have done so since the early 1970s.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: Orchestras throughout the country (uses, use) “blind” auditions to evaluate musicians and have done so since the early 1970s.

  6. Question

    For the first and second rounds of auditions, applicants for a position with the orchestra (performs, perform) from behind a thick screen to hide their identity from the judges.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: For the first and second rounds of auditions, applicants for a position with the orchestra (performs, perform) from behind a thick screen to hide their identity from the judges.

  7. Question

    Economists Claudia Goldin of Harvard University and Cecilia Rouse of Princeton University analyzed data from the late 1950s to 1996 to determine whether blind auditioning at major orchestras (improves, improve) the chances that a woman will be hired.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: Economists Claudia Goldin of Harvard University and Cecilia Rouse of Princeton University analyzed data from the late 1950s to 1996 to determine whether blind auditioning at major orchestras (improves, improve) the chances that a woman will be hired.

  8. Question

    According to Goldin and Rouse, the percentage of female musicians in the top five American orchestras (is, are) 20 percent higher now than it was in 1970.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: According to Goldin and Rouse, the percentage of female musicians in the top five American orchestras (is, are) 20 percent higher now than it was in 1970.

  9. Question

    Their study of orchestras (reports, report) that the use of screens boosts by 25 to 45 percent the odds that a woman will be hired.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: Their study of orchestras (reports, report) that the use of screens boosts by 25 to 45 percent the odds that a woman will be hired.

  10. Question

    The authors of the study conclude that the switch to blind auditions (explains, explain) about one-third to one-half of the total increase in the percentage of women hired between 1970 and 1996.

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    Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Problems When the Subject and Verb Are Separated by a Prepositional Phrase - For each of the following sentences, identify the correct subject/verb pairing.: The authors of the study conclude that the switch to blind auditions (explains, explain) about one-third to one-half of the total increase in the percentage of women hired between 1970 and 1996.