(Subject – Verb Agreement)

SỰ HÒA HỢP GIỮA CHỦ NGỮ VÀ ĐỘNG TỪ

Exercise 1: Chọn đáp án đúng nhất để điền vào chỗ trống ở mỗi câu sau đây.
1. Each student..........answered the first three questions.
a. has b. have c. have to d. must
2. Either John or his wife........breakfast each morning.
a. make b. is making c. makes d. made
3. Everybody who..........a fever must go home at once.
a. has b. have c. is having d. are having
4. Five dollars........all I have on me.
a. are b. is c. will be d. have
5. John, along with twenty friends,...........planning a party.
a. are b. is c. has been d. have been
6. Mathematics….......the science of quantity.
a. was b. are c. is d. were
7. Measles…....cured without much difficulty nowadays.
a. is b. are c. will be d. have
8. Neither Mary nor her brothers……a consent form for tomorrow’s field trip.
a. need b. needs c. is needing d. has need
9. Peter, together with his uncle,................fishing.
a. have gone b. has gone c. go d. goes
10. The army…........eliminated this section of the training test.
a. has b. is having c. are d. have
Exercise 2: Chia động từ để các câu dưới đây có nghĩa.
1. What we need most (be) books.
2. The English (be) proud and independent people.
3. The United States (have) a population of 250 million.
4. There (be, not) any letters in the mail for you today.
5. Everyone in both cars (be) injured in the accident last night.
6. The books borrowed from the library (be) on my desk now.
7. The boy who won the two medals (be) a friend of mine.
8. Bread and butter (be) our daily food.
9. The quality of the candies (be) poor.
10. Gold, as well as platinum, (have) recently risen in price.

Exercise 3: Trong số những câu sau đây, có những câu chứa một lỗi sai và có những câu chính
xác. Nếu câu đó đúng, đánh dấu  bên cạnh, nếu câu đó sai, hãy tìm và sửa lỗi sai.
1. The president, surrounded by secret service agents, is trying to make his way to the podium.
2. The buildings is destroyed during the fire are being rebuilt at the taxpayers’ expense.
3. 20 percent of the forest has been destroyed lately.
4. The witnesses saw that most of the fire in the hills was extinguished.
5. Some of the animals from the zoo was released into the animals preserve.
6. All of the students in the class taught by Professor Roberts is required to turn in their term
papers next Monday.
7. Half of the food that we are serving to the guests is still in the refrigerator.
8. We believe that some of the employees is going to get promoted soon.
9. The people in the apartment next to mine are giving a party this evening.
10. Each of the doctors in the building need to have a separate reception area.

ĐÁP ÁN
Exercise 1
1A 2C 3A 4B 5B 6C 7A 8A 9B 10A
Exercise 2
1. is 2. are 3. has 4. aren’t 5. was
6. are 7. is 8. is 9. is 10. has
Exercise 3
1. 

2. is destroyed => destroyed

3. 

4. 

5. was => were

6. is => are

7. 

8. is => are

9. 
10. need => needs