Question

3. Which of the two options is correct? Tick the correct word.
1. In spite of all my advice/advices, the young fellow took to wrong ways.
2. He gave me a great deal of trouble/troubles.
3. Houses are often made of stone/stones.
4. She gave us all the information/informations she had.
5. Do you like Shelley's poetry/poetries?
6. Five hundred/hundreds people were present there.
7. I bought three dozen/dozens apples.
8. Whose are these cattle/cattles?
9. Vermin/Vermins are harmful to plants.
10. There are many different people/peoples in Europe.​

Answer 1

1. In spite of all my advice, the young fellow took to wrong ways.

2. He gave me a great deal of trouble.

3. Houses are often made of stone.

4. She gave us all the information she had.

5. Do you like Shelley's poetry?

6. Five hundred people were present there.

7. I bought three dozen apples.

8. Whose are these cattle?

9. Vermin are harmful to plants.

10. There are many different people in Europe.

Subject-verb agreement is a feature of grammar that involves using the right form of the verb with a singular/plural noun/subject. If a subject is in its singular form, the verb must also be in the singular form and vice versa.

For example:

• She is taking part in the competition.

Here, 'is' is being used along with 'she' since 'she' is a singular subject and 'is' is the singular verb that agrees with it.

• They are not interested in the subject matter.

Here, 'are' is being used along with 'they' since 'they' is a plural subject and 'are' is the plural verb that agrees with it.

A part of the concept also deals with knowing which words are the same in their singular and plural form. For ins‎tance, in this question itself, advices, informations, cattles and vermins aren't the plural nouns of advice, information, cattle and vermin. These words are used the same way in their singular and plural sense. Hence, they generally take up the plural form if the sentence is a general statement and is not specific to a topic.

Answer 2

Required Answer :-

1. In spite of all my advice/advices the young fellow took to wrong ways.

Ans - advice

2. He gave me a great deal of trouble/troubles

Ans - trouble

3. Houses are often made of stone/stones.

Ans - stones

4.  She gave us all the information/informations she had.

5. Do you like Shelley's poetry/poetries?

Ans - poetry

6.Five hundred/hundreds people were present there.

Ans - Hundred

7.I bought three dozen/dozens apples.

Ans - Dozen

8.Whose are these cattle/cattles?

Ans - Cattles

9.  Vermin/Vermins are harmful to plants.

Ans - Vermin

10. There are many different people/peoples in Europe.

Ans - people