10. There are five pencils in this field. (Use a pluralistic verb there if the next noun is plural.) Add `is` or `are` after the word `there` in the following sentences: 1. There ………….. two boys standing there. 2. There………….. many students at school. 3. Today there is …………..
A lot of boys are absent from the class. 4. If you need money, there is …………. A few in my pocket. 5. There………….. Sixteen players selected to travel to Australia. 6. There………….. a proper balance of emotions and intelligence in him. 7.
There………….. Nothing that could be so rejoicing. 8. ………….. someone? 9. There………….. No light here. 10. There are ………….. total darkness inside. Answers 1. are 2.
are 3. are 4. is 5. are 6. is 7. is 8. Is 9. is 10. verb comes from the Latin verb, meaning, one word. It is called that because it is the most important word in a sentence. A verb is a word that is used to affirm something about a person or thing. Here are the basic rules of the verb-subject agreement.
4. The following verbs may be regular or irregular: Add the correct form of the contemporary form of verbs in parentheses in the following sentences: 1. The new planes ……….. Very quickly. (Mouches) 2. The river……….. It`s good in the summer. (see) 3. Mangoes…………. Freshness. (see) 4. A friend of mine………….
In the same school as me. I read it. 5. The owners of this factory…………. very rich and ………….. in big houses. (be, live) 6. Some women…………. All aboard………….. She`s sick. (Aversion, do) 7.
Boys………….. every day at school. (go) 8. It……………. to see pictures. (how) 9. I………….. like him……….. That`s right.
(Miracles, do) 10. you………….. what………….. This is me. (Knowledge, trouble) (c) When a sentence begins with “there,” the verb corresponds to the actual subject that comes after the verb. John`s coming. There are 50 students in my class. In the simple form of the present, if the subject is a single name or pronounist, the verb takes the marker – s.
4. The poet and singer agreed to come. (Here we use a plural verb, since the two names refer to two different people.) Rule 2: two distinct topics that are linked by or, either, or by a single verb. Route Examples: Select verbs in the following sentences. Also write on a sheet of paper the verb and its type (stretched verb, transitive / intransitive, etc.) (i) Sue moved from New York. (a) moved (b) Sue (c) New York Rule 7: Use a single verb with distances, periods, amounts of money, etc., if they are considered a unit.