Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English

War

Directions:  In this Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz, choose the correct answer so that subject and verb agree.  The sentences in this quiz are very difficult!  Concentrate on finding the subject in each sentence.  These sentences are from the far left, pacifist perspective.  If you have your own sentences for a Subject-Verb Agreement quiz from the far right perspective, please send them here.

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1: Neither the children nor their father _____ able to drink the water after their well was contaminated by spent plutonium.

were
could
was
too

2: Hardest hit by the latest bombing campaign _____ the innocent victims.

saved
were
was
lost

3: George Bush, along with all the might of the US combat forces and the "intelligence" community, _____ not able to locate either Bin Ladin or Saddam Hussein's mysterious weapons of mass destruction that were supposed to have been in his possession.

are
is
had
has

4: That three times the number of innocent victims have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq than were killed by the terrorist attacks on 9/11 _____ not affected either the cowboy mentality of George Bush or the "brainwashed by the news media" US population at all.

has
was
have
were
thereby

5: Why there isn't a light bright enough for most US citizens to see their president is leading them down a dead end path with no exit, no hope, no redemption, and no possibility for peace _____ a complete mystery.

is
do
are
seem
thought
happens

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