Lab Activities
Lab Activity 39: Subject-Verb Agreement
 
Objective To practice making subjects and verbs agree with each other.

Step 1: In each item below, write a sentence as instructed. After you finish, check to make sure your subjects and verbs agree with each other. You may refer to Chapter 39.

Example:
Write a sentence using the word both.
Both Ryan and Edward are writing research papers on black holes.

       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



      Step 3: For each sentence below, select the choice in which the subjects and verbs agree with each other. If the original sentence is correct, select "No change."

1. Practically everyone, at some time or other, use a phrase similar to "My desk has become a black hole!" [Hint]



      2. Helping us express our frustration over the messes on our desks are the phrase, now something like a curse, "Black hole!" [Hint]



      3. Even among space enthusiasts, few is aware that the possible existence of an object from which light could not escape was first proposed by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1795. [Hint]



      4. Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity and Laplace's work was the breakthroughs making possible the concept of what is now known as a black hole. [Hint]



      5. Many people in the present day generally understands the concept of a black hole. [Hint]



      6. The idea is that everything that fall into a black hole can never escape from it. [Hint]



      7. Modifying this idea are the physicist Stephen Hawking's 2004 statements that matter can escape from black holes, but in unrecognizable form. [Hint]



      8. Therefore, some physicists and Hawking agrees that all matter that black holes capture is not destroyed. [Hint]



      9. By their very nature, theories can change, and several ideas about black holes is now under consideration. [Hint]



      10. Whether or not matter escapes from black holes, nobody want to be anywhere near one. [Hint]



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



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