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5. Everyone wants (wants/want) to go to the party.

6. Each student hopes (hope/hopes) to get an A in the test.
7. My group refuses (refusing/refuses) to work on the class project, so I did it by myself.
8. The football team wins (wins/win) every home game.

9. My family wants (wants/wanting) to visit me when I go to college.
10. The boy and the girl are (are/was) hungry.
11. Math and science are (is/are) my favourite subjects.

12. Brittany and Susan dance (dance/dances) at the studio.

Practice Questions

I. Tick (3) the correct verb in each of the sentences given below.

1. She (doesn’t/don’t) look very well today.
2. Twenty minutes (is/are) the amount of time it takes me to get home from work.

3. It (doesn’t/don’t) seem so cold today.
4. Gymnastics (is/are) easy for Angela.
5. Interesting news (is/are) what sells our paper.

6. A pound of cookies (cost/costs) about a dollar.
7. They (doesn’t/don’t) think they’ll win the game tonight.

8. He (don’t/doesn’t) speak English very well.

II. The following sentences have not been edited. There is an error in each of the lines
against which blanks have been given. Write the incorrect word and the correct word
in the given blanks. Underline the corrected word that has been supplied.
Incorrect Correct
1. To be happy, a person must accepts himself. __________ __________

2. The man, along with the two women, were delayed. __________ __________
3. We was passed by six cars. __________ __________

4. Few of the students lives in the dormitory. __________ __________
5. Ice cream melt at room temperature. __________ __________

6. Both sides seek to avoid the costs; neither side
quantify the benefits. __________ __________

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