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1. 1.

   Vineet and Nidhi visit a restaurant. Complete the conversation by choosing the correct form of the verb.

   1. Nidhi: This table beside the window ________________ (offer/offers) a good view.
   2. Vineet: Yes, the view from here-of the mountains, clouds and sky - ________________ (is/are) beautiful, isn't it?
   3. Nidhi: The music and the lighting ________________ (is/are) both perfect. Here's the menu.
   4. Vineet: Every item listed here ________________ (sound/sounds) so French, but none of them ________________ (is/are) expensive.
   5. Nidhi: Can you see if the house ________________ (serve/serves) Chinese?
   6. Vineet: No, they ________________ (serve/serves) only Tibetan and Thai.
   7. Nidhi: Either of them ________________ (are/is) fine.
2. 2.

   Fill in the blanks choosing the correct verbs from the brackets.

   1. Slow and steady ________________ the race. (win/wins)
   2. My spectacles ________________ missing from my bag. (are/is)
   3. Half of hundred ________________ fifty. (are/is)
   4. Many a candidate ________________ failed the test. (has/have)
   5. The pupils of this class ________________ very committed. (is/are)
   6. The crockery in this shop ________________ quite expensive. (are/is)
   7. A fleet of ships ________________ docked here. (is/are)
   8. Notices ________________ been sent to all involved. (has/have)
   9. Neither ________________ he educated, nor a gentleman. (are/is)
   10. A herd of cows ________________ grazing in the field. (is/are)
   11. Much of the truth ________________ not disclosed. (were/was)
   12. Not a drum ________________ heard. (was/were)
   13. Seventy-five thousand rupees ________________ a large sum of money. (is/are)
   14. The Government ________________ taken its decision. (have/has)
   15. Each of the criminals ________________ arrested. (was/were)
   16. Neither Harish nor his sister ________________ been here. (have/has)
   17. The gardener or his sons ________________ care of the land. (take/takes)
   18. The father, as well as his sons, ________________ hardworking. (is/are)
3. 3.

   In each of these sentences, supply a verb in agreement with the subject.

   1. Suman and I ________________ great friends.
   2. Bread and butter ________________ nutritious.
   3. Four and four ________________ eight.
   4. Mathematics ________________ a difficult subject to master.
   5. Each of the boys ________________ given a plan.
   6. Every one of the motels ________________ full.
   7. Neither he nor they ________________ correct.
   8. My friend, as well as l, ________________ felicitated.
   9. A number of vehicles ________________ been impounded by the police.
   10. The committee ________________ passed the resolution.
   11. Ten miles ________________ a long distance.
   12. Oil and water ________________ not mix.
   13. His means ________________ meagre. 
   14. The historian and philosopher ________________ dead.
   15. No one ________________ explained this properly.
4. 4.

   This paragraph contains some errors in subject-verb agreement. Find and correct these errors. Remember the tense of the verb should not change.

   (1) It are one thing to visit a zoo as an ordinary member of the public but quite another to live in the middle of it. (2) This, at times, are a mixed blessing. (3) It certainly enable you to rush out at any hour of the day or night to observe your charges, but it also mean that you is on duty twenty-four hours a day, and you finds that a cosy little dinner party disintegrate because some animal have broken its leg, or because the heaters in the reptile house has failed, or for any of a dozen reasons. (4) Winter, of course, are your slack period, and sometimes days on end passes without a single visitor in the grounds and you begins to feel that the zoo are really your own private one. (5) The pleasantness of this sensation are more than slightly marred by the alarm with which you views the mounting of your bills and compares them to the lack of gate-money. (6) But in the season the days is so full and the visitors so numerous that you hardly seems to notice the passing of time, and you forgets your overdraft.