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Exercise 1a: Basic Noun-Verb Agreement

Click the correct verb to agree with the noun or pronoun.

  1. We (WANTS/WANT) to go to the store with Mom because, on her own, she never chooses Super Sugary Raspberry Freaks.

  2. Do you know that those people with the purple clothes, purple hair, and purple car (IS/ARE) our new neighbors?

  3. "Did you go to the new gourmet deli to buy this marvelously green pepperoni?" Zoe asked. She didn't realize that I (WAS/WERE) behind schedule cleaning out my refrigerator.

  4. Dogs (LIKE/LIKES) their food. Cats do, too, but they often are too uppity to show it.

  5. Each time I microwave a stuffed pepper for lunch, members of the office staff (EXCLAIM/EXCLAIMS), "Can we have some, too?"