Practice Reading Comprehension - 4 | English Language for Grade 10 PDF Download

In the sentence, the subject is "committee," which is a collective noun that identifies a group of individuals. Because the "committee" acts as a single unit, the subject is singular. Therefore, it must agree with the singular verb "meets."

In the correct sentence, the subjects "price" and "location" are joined by "and," which makes the complete subject plural. Therefore, the correct verb is "depend." Compound subjects that are followed by "each" or "every" take a plural verb, but compound subjects that are preceded by "each" or "every" usually take a singular verb. The indefinite pronoun "both" is plural because it refers to more than one thing, so it takes a plural verb.

"Each one" is the subject of the sentence, and it requires a singular verb.

The subject of sentence 6 is "precipitation," which is singular. Therefore, the singular verb "develops" is the correct choice because it agrees with the subject.

Compound subjects that are preceded by the adjectives "each" or "every" usually take verbs that are singular. In the sentence with the incorrect subject-verb agreement, the plural verb "have" should be changed to the singular form "has" because the compound subject "man, woman, and child" is preceded by the adjective "every."

The sentence contains a plural subject ("Cirrus clouds") and a compound verb. To agree with the subject, both verbs must be in the plural form. Therefore, "exist" and "form" are the correct answers.

The choice "A parliament of owls" is the only subject that works with the singular verb "observes." In the phrase, "parliament" (a term used to describe a group of owls) is the subject. The phrase "of owls" is a prepositional phrase that modifies "parliament." Prepositional phrases never serve as subjects of a sentence.

The subject of the sentence is "Damage," which is a singular noun. The prepositional phrases "in the form" and "of wind, hail, lightning, and tornadoes" function as modifiers in the sentence. Therefore, the plural verb "are" should take the singular form "is" to read "is a common effect."

The subject of this sentence is "paintings"; therefore, it requires a plural verb. The verb that agrees with "paintings" is "are."

Sentence 7 as it appears in the passage contains a subject-verb error in the dependent clause that begins with "that." Relative pronouns such as "who," "which," and "that" can function as subjects in a dependent clause, yet they also refer to another word in the sentence, called the antecedent. In this sentence, "that" refers to the antecedent "middle altitude cloud," which is the singular subject of the sentence. Therefore, the verb that follows "that" must agree with the singular subject "cloud." The plural verb "appear" should be written as the singular verb "appears."