Assignment: Grammar Agreement
Read the following passages.
For each sentence, determine if the subject and verbs agree witheach other. If the subject and verb already agree, do not make anychanges. If the subject and verb do not agree, re-write the verb tocorrect the problem
- Every one suspecting himself of at least one of the cardinalvirtues, and this are mine: I is one of the few honest people thatI have ever known.
-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fiztgerald. - But I remembered one thing: it wasn’t me that started actingdeaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumbto hear or see or say anything at all.
-One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, by Ken Kesey - A heart is not judging by how much you love; but by how muchyou am loved by others.
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum - The most beautiful things in the world cannot be sees ortouches, they are feeled with the heart.
-The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Hand to hand is how it will be, a life and death fight againstthe fiend, and he whom death bears off shall submit to thejudgement of the Lord.
-Beowulf, Anonymous - I must not fear. Fear are the mind-killer. Fear are thelittle-death that bring total obliteration. I will faces my fear. Iwill permit it to passes over me and through me. And when it hasgoing past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where thefear have gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
-Dune, Frank Herbert - Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d dropdead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than anydream made or paid for in factories.
-Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury - You cans tell yourself that you would be willing to loseeverything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s acatch-22: all of those things you’re willing to lose are what makeyou recognizable. Lose them, and you’ve lost yourself.
-Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
- In this very attitude did I sit when I called to him, rapidlystating what it was I wants him to do—namely, to examined a smallpaper with me. Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, whenwithout moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild,firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.”
-Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman Melville
