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Marioking27 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Recall your knowledge about subject-verb agreement and fill in the blanks from the options given below.

  1. ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the photoelectric effect.
    1. That Einstein
    2. It was Einstein
    3. Einstein who
    4. Einstein

  1. ______ of Willa Catha present an unadorned picture of life on the prairies of the Midwestern during the 19th century.
    1. The stories who
    2. That the novels
    3. The novels which
    4. The novels

  1. Unlike the climate of the other islands of , ______ Kona contains 54 different temperate zones.
    1. that of
    2. this is
    3. these are
    4. those that

  1. Among all the scientists of the 1930s, ______ was so suited to carry out the project as J.Robert Oppenheimer.
    1. no scientists
    2. not who was a scientist
    3. none
    4. a scientist never he

  1. By the time of the appearance of "Paulus", ________ was widely recognized as the most famous living composer.
    1. it was Felix Mendelssohn
    2. Felix Mendelssohn who
    3. Felix Mendelssohn
    4. Felix Mendelssohn whom

  1. ________ is as widespread in the U.S. as the grey squirrel, an animal actually classified as a rodent.
    1. No mammal
    2. Not a mammal which
    3. None mammal
    4. Not a mammal that

  1. In the quiet of the woods, ________ sometimes hears the thrush breaking snail shells.
    1. the one
    2. one
    3. ones
    4. those ones

  1. ________ is a growing practice in cooperative farming associations to pool and sell the fruit as a common commodity under the brands of the association rather than to sell the fruit of each grower separately.
    1. There
    2. One
    3. It, which
    4. Why

  1. The ________ the forest reached their highest price in the 1980s.
    1. products of
    2. productions by
    3. producers to
    4. predictabilities with

  1. With few exceptions, ______ are warm-blooded, have live births, and are suckled with milk from their mother’s body.
    1. which mammals
    2. mammals
    3. mammals that
    4. mammals, they
My answers are:
1: D
2: D
3: A
4: C
5: C
6: A
7: B
8: A
9: A
10: B
  

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Hi, and welcome to the forums. Translating "A" for "1" and so forth, I agree with your choices. Some of the sentences don't sound very natural - #3 and #9 in particular.

— BarbaraPA

  • Hi, and welcome to the forums.
  • Translating "A" for "1" and so forth, I agree with your choices.
  • Some of the sentences don't sound very natural - #3 and #9 in particular.
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Hi, and welcome to the forums.

Translating "A" for "1" and so forth, I agree with your choices. Some of the sentences don't sound very natural - #3 and #9 in particular.
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