Grammar Practice Questions - Subject-Verb Agreement

DIRECTION for the questions 1 to 20: In each of the following sentences supply a verb in agreement with its subject:
  1. To take pay and then not to do work ________ dishonest.
  2. The cost of all these articles ________ risen. 
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  4. The jury _______ divided in their opinions
  5. That night every one of the boat's crew ______ down with fever.
  6. One or the other of those fellows _______ stolen the watch.
  7. The strain of all the difficulties and vexations and anxieties ______ more than he could bear.
  8. No news _________ good news.
  9. The accountant and the cashier ______ absconded.
  10. A good man and useful citizen ______ passed away.
  11. The famous juggler and conjurer ________ too unwell to perform.
  12. The Three Musketeers ________ written by Dumas.
  13. Each of the suspected men ______ arrested.
  14. The ebb and flow of the tides ______ explained by Newton.
  1. Ninety rupees ______ too much for this bag.
  2. The cow as well as the horse _________on grass.
  3. Neither his father nor his mother __________ alive.
  4. There _______ many objections to the plan.
  5. Two-thirds of the city ____________ in ruins
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  7. The formation of paragraphs __________ very important.
  8. Man's happiness or misery __________ in a great measure in his own hands.
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