Exercise No. 6. A
Supply the correct form of verb given in the brackets:
1. A Tale of Two Cities (is/are) an excellent novel by Charles Dickens.
2. Physics (was/were) the subject he was specializing as a student.
3. This scissors (is/are) blunt; give me another.
4. Either the manufacturer or the shopkeeper ( is/ are) responsible for the short supply.
5. Everyone from the surrounding villages ( was/ were) hurt during the earthquake of Gujrat.
6. The cricket team( was/ were) drawn from Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkatta and Delhi.
7. The news at last (give/ gives) ground for a better future.
8. Neither the driver nor the passengers ( remember/ remembers) how the accident occurred.
9. The school ( was/ were) assembled by ten o clock.
10. There( is/ are) no differences of opinion among the partners.
11. The committee ( were / was ) undecided about the final outcome.
12. Each of the players ( was /were) hoping to be selected for the University team.
13. Neither of these books ( is / are ) presently required by me.
14. Somebody in one of the inner rooms (was/ were) playing on the harmonium very
loudly.
15. The jury ( is/ are) expected to return their verdict later this week.
16. If either of them (phone/ phones ) please record the message very carefully.
17. Neither my colleagues nor I ( am/ are) going on holiday this summer.
18. Traffic potholes ( make /makes) roads extremely dangerous even for the pedestrians.
19. Regions near the equator (receive/receives) More heat from the
Sun than regions near the North Pole and South Pole.
20. I think that you know , “That earth’s heat( come/comes ) only from the Sun”
21. Weather(change/changes) all the time.
22. Weather(is/are) not the same as climate.
23. The amount of rainfall largely (control/controls) the kind of plantlife in a region.
24. All conditions of the atmosphere (is/are) ‘weather’
25. Sun light or ordinary white light ( are,is) really a mixture of all the colours.
26. Either the manufacturer or the shop keeper ( is /are) responsible for the fraud.
27. The English cricket team( is/ are) drawn from England , Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
28. There(is/are) no differences in opinion.