Practice Flashcards: SAT — verbs, agreement and sentence structure | Zestly

Question 1

Subject-verb agreement rule

Accepted Answer

The verb must agree in number with the subject, regardless of any intervening words or phrases.

Question 2

Collective noun agreement

Accepted Answer

Collective nouns like 'committee' or 'team' take a singular verb when acting as a single unit.

Question 3

Compound subject with 'or'/'nor'

Accepted Answer

The verb must agree with the element closest to it.

Question 4

Inverted sentence agreement

Question 5

Verb tense consistency

Question 6

Past participle usage

Question 7

Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Question 8

Pronoun case: Subject vs Object

Question 9

Dangling modifier

Question 10

Parallel structure

Question 11

Singular indefinite pronouns