In which of the following sentences do the subjects and verb agree?

Question

a. The dogs, the cat, and the mouse is running around the cabin.
b. The mouse sneak into a hole.
c. The dogs runs around the hole, barking.
d. The cat sits quietly, waiting for the dust to settle.
21. Read the following sentence.
The flower on the porch complement the white columns of the architecture.
Choose the revision of the sentence that corrects the problem in subject-verb
agreement.
a. The flower on the porches complement the white column of the
architectures.
b. The flowers on the porch complement the white columns of the
architecture.
c. The flowers on the porch complements the white columns of the
architecture.
d. No revision is needed.
22. Read this sentence summarizing a scene from “Uncle Richard’s New Year’s
Dinner” by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Prissy learned two things during that overheard conversation: first, that Uncle
Richard would be out of town for the afternoon, and second, that he had nobody to
make his New Year’s dinner.
Which type of sentence is this example sentence?
a. simple
b. compound
c. complex
d. compound-complex
23. Which of the following sentences is a compound sentence?
a. He had a good dance partner, a place to go, and a way to get there.
b. By today’s standards, he should have been happy, but he wasn’t.
c. Why did he give up singing the blues?
d. How long did the band play for that night?

Answer 1

Here are the answers to your questions:

1. In which of the following sentences do the subjects and verb agree?

   • d. The cat sits quietly, waiting for the dust to settle.
     This sentence has a singular subject "The cat" and a corresponding verb "sits."

2. Choose the revision of the sentence that corrects the problem in subject-verb agreement.

   • b. The flowers on the porch complement the white columns of the architecture.
     This revision changes "flower" to "flowers" to match the plural verb "complement."

3. Which type of sentence is this example sentence?

   • d. compound-complex
     The sentence is compound because it contains two independent clauses ("that Uncle Richard would be out of town for the afternoon" and "that he had nobody to make his New Year’s dinner") and complex because it has a dependent clause.

4. Which of the following sentences is a compound sentence?

   • b. By today’s standards, he should have been happy, but he wasn’t.
     This sentence contains two independent clauses joined by the conjunction "but," making it a compound sentence.

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