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Subject - Verb Agreement - Exercise 7
Directions: Write your answers in the space provided under each item. When you have completed both Parts I and II of the exercise, click on "Check My Answers" and check your answers with those on the answer key.
Part I
Directions: Each sentence below contains a choice for correct subject-verb agreement.
Locate the subject of each sentence and choose the verb that agrees with the subject. Write your answers in the space provided under each item.
1. Quilting bees, which have always provided warmth and sociability for the women participating in them, (is, are) now becoming quite profitable as well.
2. American women, who were quite restricted during the Victorian Age, (has, have) always quilted as a means of keeping sane under such trying conditions.
3. The quilts that these women made of scraps of silk (was, were) called crazy quilts.
4. The quilts that these women made of scraps of silk (was, were) called crazy quilts.
5. The quilting renaissance that has swept across the country (appear, appears) to have been encouraged by feminism’s pride in women’s art.
Part II
Directions: This group of sentences contains a mixture of correct and incorrect subject-verb combinations, separated by who / that / which clauses. Read each sentence carefully. If the subject and verb agree, write "correct" in the space provided below. If the subject and verb do not agree, correct the sentence. Write the corrections in the space below.
6. The American International Quilt Association, which began with 45 members, now have 1, 680 members.
7. David Pottinger, who collects quilts, runs a general store in Indiana so that he can live amongst the shy Amish and their quilts.
8. Quilts that contain boldly-colored geometric and abstract designs was celebrated in the 1970’s as precursors of abstract art.
9. The Whitney Museum of Art, which is located in New York, was the first to officially recognize the painterly qualities of quilts.
10. The author of several articles on quilts that were published in Smithsonian magazine were for many years a roving editor for the Reader’s Digest in Europe.
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