SAT · English · Subject-Verb Agreement — Spot Error

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement parts

   1. The
   2. group
   3. of
   4. students
   5. are
   6. standing
   7. outside
   8. .

   Correction

   is

   Incorrect part

   are

2. Statement parts

   1. Neither
   2. of
   3. the
   4. answers
   5. were
   6. correct
   7. .

   Correction

   was

   Incorrect part

   were

3. Statement parts

   1. Each
   2. of
   3. the
   4. books
   5. have
   6. a
   7. different
   8. cover
   9. .

   Correction

   has

   Incorrect part

   have

4. Statement parts

   1. The
   2. data
   3. shows
   4. that
   5. each
   6. trial
   7. were
   8. successful
   9. .

   Correction

   was

   Incorrect part

   were

Instructions

Tap the wrong verb in each sentence.