SUBJECT & VERB AGREEMENT.Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the follo
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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
1 Three weeks not enough holiday
2 Each of you a share in the work
3 Ten dollars too much to pay
4 A number of students volunteered to the job
5 Linguistics out the ways in which languages work
6 Every effort _ being made to minimize civilian casualties
7 The Philippines of more than 7,000 islands
8 Statistics a branch of mathematics
9 Physics to understand the mysteries of the physical world
10 The United Nations its head quarters in New York city
11 Fifty minutes the maximum length of time allotted for the exam
12 One of my neighbors curious about other people’s private life
13 Seven months a long time for me to wait
14 A lot of restaurants open at night
15 Tom doesn’t agree but the rest of us
16 Most people with my attitude
17 A lot of her furniture in her room new
18 There a few flowers in this garden last summer
19 There lots of snow in the garden
20 Most of us the same about the war
21 A large number of reporters at the meeting yesterday
22 Much progress been made in recent years
23 The water in those rivers polluted
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25 A number of workers asked for a rise since last month
26 The number of pupils getting poor marks since the beginning of the semester appalling
27 Five thousand pounds stolen in the robbery last night
28 His silence he agrees with us
29 Mr Thomson with his wife and his three children abroad
30 One of the girls who working in this department my niece
31 There only a few people at the meeting last night
32 The English to drink tea
33 Everybody trying to do their best at present
34 Both of the girls pretty, but neither of them is intelligent
35 Jim as well as I always busy doing English homework
36 The study of languages very interesting
37 Neither Daisy nor I glad to do that
38 That you take a computer course very necessary
39 Mumps usually a mild fever
40 The police come to the site of the accident
41 More and more information about the accidents being collected at the moment
42 A number of students in the exam
43 Half of the money to Mr Lam
44 The pilot along with his passengers rescued last night
45 Two days fast when you are on vacation
46 Many of the girls in this school white shirts
47 Three kilos of potatoes the basket heavier
48 Some of the tables in the classroom broken
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50 The English proud and independent people
51 The United States a population of 250 million
52 The young the future in their hands
53 Both the boss and his colleagues robbed last night
54 My brother together with his friends often in the park
55 Five hundred miles a long distance
56 Neither he nor they here yesterday
57 In the middle of the room four chairs and a table
58 Everyone in both cars injured in the accident last night
59 Gold, as well as platinum, recently risen in price
60 The quality of candies poor
61 Either John or his children breakfast each morning
62 Since then, no one ever known the truth
63 These pictures, as well as the painting, the room
64 Gymnastics my favorite sport
65 Hurry up! Everyone waiting for us
66 What he told his friends to be of no importance now
67 Measles cured without much difficulty nowadays
68 Neither the moon nor stars visible in this dark night
69 Wheat used to make flour
70 Fortunately, the news as bad as we thought
71 I don’t like the hot weather Thirty degrees too warm for me
72 Not only a dog but also two cats at home in his garage
73 Both a poem and a short story been written by the young author
74) To solve these problems very difficult
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76 Neither the animals nor their keeper prepared for the storm
77 A number of spectators seriously injured in the accident last Monday
78 The number of road accidents increasing
79 The American trust the news
80 The morning news on at 6 o’clock every day
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction
83 Walking (A) in the (B) rain are (C) not a good idea (D)
84 The unemployed (A) really needs (B) to be given (C) more help (D)
86 The (A) police is asking (B) him a lot of (C) questions which (D) he can’t answer
87 Life (A) is not easy (B) for those who is (C) without jobs (D)
88 The (A) Chinese is (B) very famous for (C) their food (D)
89 I love swimming (A) which are (B) a good sport for (C) my health (D)
91 One of (A) the biggest problems (B) facing (C) our society are (D) unemployment
93 How (A) you got (B) there do (C) not concern me (D)
94 What I say (A) about these (B) problems are (C) my own (D) affair
meeting (D)
ago (D)
99 There are (A) forty students in (B) the class Half (C) of the class is ( D) boys