Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with the correct verb:
a) Neither you nor he______ mistaken.
b) Iron as well as gold_____ found in India
c) Not only he but also his friends______ guilty
d) Ten kilometers_______ not a long distance.
e) A flock of sheep _______grazing near the foot of the hill
f) Each of the boys______ rewarded.
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Answer:
Present Tense
A verb must agree in number and person with its subject.
(a) When the subject is third person singular, most English verbs end in -s or -es but there is no -s or -es with third person plural.
He goes to school.
They go to school.
Exceptions
(i) The Verb ‘be’ and its forms are exceptions to this rule :
He is a friend.
I am your friend.
They Eire friends.
(ii) Can, must, may and ought to and the auxiliaries will and shall do not have ‘s’ or ‘es’ with either singular or plural.
He can/must/may/ought to/ will/ shall do it.
They can/must/may/ought to/will/shall do it.
When ‘will is a full verb meaning desire, it follows the rule for most other verbs and takes ‘-s’ when the subject is third person singular. .
Whatever God wills, man cannot alter.
Verbs that end with ‘y’ and have a consonant before this ‘y’, the ‘y’ changes into ‘f and ‘-es’ is added if the subject is third person singular.
Ram relies on me.
He tries his best.
He flies a kite.
(b) A singular subject is sometimes mistaken as plural e.g. when(it starts with (one of, either, neither etc.). Remember that these must be taken as singular.
Either of you is wrong.
Neither of them works here.
One of the teachers teaches English.
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Explanation:
Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with the correct verb:
a) Neither you nor he______ mistaken.
b) Iron as well as gold_____ found in India
c) Not only he but also his friends______ guilty
d) Ten kilometers_______ not a long distance.
e) A flock of sheep _______grazing near the foot of the hill
f) Each of the boys______ rewarded.