Handbook: Writing Problems and How to Correct Them

EXERCISE 5.1, Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Errors

EXERCISE 5.1

Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement Errors

Correct any subject-verb agreement errors in the following sentences. Some sentences may be correct as written.

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1. Many members of the international business community communicates by speaking English, the international language of business.

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2. A student in most non-English-speaking industrialized nations expect to spend six or more years studying English.

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3. The United States are different.

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4. Working for laws that requires all Americans to speak English is a fairly common U.S. political tactic.

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5. In American schools, often neither a teaching staff nor enough money have been available for good foreign-language programs.

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6. Some linguists joke that a person who speaks two languages are called bilingual, while a person who speaks one language is called American.

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7. Some states around the country has begun to change this situation.

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8. If a class is given lessons in a foreign language, the students feel that they will be better prepared for the new global economy.

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9. In a Spanish or French class, children of immigrants for whom English was a second language learns a new language and perhaps gains a new appreciation of their parents’ accomplishments.

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10. Everyone who study a foreign language are likely to benefit.