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1.Write out the predicate and state to what type it belongs

1. Harry was enjoying his dinner. Simple Verbal.
2. She became bitter and unapproachable. Simple Verbal.
3. Leila’s partner gave a little gasping laugh. Simple Verbal.
4. He was a country doctor. He died young. Compound Nominal. Simple Verbal.
5. I began to stammer my apologies. Compound Aspect.
6. But I’ve got to have a word with him. We got to do something about it. Compound Aspect. Compound Aspect.

7.Choose the appropriate form of the verb

The senator, like the others, ______ shaking every hand within reach.

1. a) was
2. b) were

8.The power and the presence of the commando movement __________ mushroomed in the last four years.

1. a) has
2. b) have

9.The discharge of industrial wastes _____  a situation that must be corrected now.

1. a) create
2. b) creates

10._____ the strategy and the tactics of the two brothers actually counterproductive to the cause of peace?

1. a) is
2. b) are

11.During the eclipse one of the two things astronomers will look for _______ comets.

1. a) is
2. b) are

12.The slum districts of any large city in this country or any other country _______  crime and disease.

1. a) breed
2. b) breeds

13.Neither of the two women ____________ named in the bomb-plot indictment.

1. a) was
2. b) were

14.Around the corner on the left __________ a theatre and a public library.

1. a) is
2. b) are

15.Either you or the previous borrower ________ care very much about public property.

1. a) doesn’t
2. b) don’t

16.The main target of the president’s remarks ___________ what he called the neo-isolationists.

1. a) was
2. b) were

17.Fatting cattle __________ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily

1. a) consumes
2. b) consume

18.Her family ___________ of a delicate constitution.

1. a) was
2. b) were

19.It ______ they that should honour you.

1. a) is
2. b) are

20.After some apologies, which __________ perhaps too soft and sweet… the great man thus opened the case.

1. a) were
2. b) was

21.Youth and Age __________ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of his twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business.

1. a) was
2. b) were

22.The multitude _________ something else to do than to read hearts and interpret dark sayings.

1. a) has

have

23.The newly married couple, on their arrival in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London ___________ received by the chief butler.

1. a) were
2. b) was

24.There ____________ still two hours of daylight before them.

1. a) was
2. b) were

25.As of old, nineteen hours of labour a day _______ all too little to suit them.

1. a) was
2. b) were

26.A group of men _____ standing guarded by carabinieri.

1. a) was
2. b) were

27.There ____________   a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.

1. a) was
2. b) were

28.The bread and butter _______ for Gwendolen.

1. a) is
2. b) are

29.There _______ a number of things, Martin, that you don’t understand.

1. a) is
2. b) are

30.The number of research institutes in our country   ____ very large.

1. a) is
2. b) are

31.… the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there _______ neither time nor space to arrange them.

1. a) was
2. b) were