Aren't
2. Underground caverns _______ a big tourist attraction in Virginia.
is
are
3. Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts _______ full of interesting bits of information.
is
are
4. _______ the café have a special lunch every day?
Doesn't
Don't
5. We _______ on the telephone for very long.
wasn't
weren't
1.Aren’t the pyramids in Mexico?
The correct answer is “aren’t” since the subject of the verb is “the pyramids”, which is a plural noun and the subject-verb agreement corresponds with the third person plural.
2. Underground caverns are a big tourist attraction in Virginia.
The correct option is “are” because the subject is “underground caverns”, a plural noun that agrees with the verb to be in the third person plural.
3. Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts is full of interesting bits of information.
In this sentence, the correct answer is the verb form “is” since the subject refers to the book that is a singular noun, which corresponds with the third person singular. The subject can be replaced by the personal pronoun “it”.
4.Doesn’t the café have a special lunch every day?
The correct answer is “doesn’t” since this is an auxiliary verb in the negative form that agrees with the subject of the question “the café”. The subject could be replaced by “it”, and that is why the auxiliary verb must correspond with the third person singular.
5. We weren’t on the phone for very long.
In this sentence, the correct option is “weren’t” because this is the past form of the verb to be that corresponds with the first person plural “we”.
The correct way to fill in the blanks of each of the sentence chossing either a singular or a plural verb is as follows:
To know whether we should use a verb in its singular or plural form, we must look first at the subject and determined if it is a singular or a plural noun. Let's do that for each subject:
Learn more about singular and plural here:
B. You write down words or ideas that occur to you in no particular order.
C. You write down words or ideas in chronological order.
D. You're generating words that suggest possible themes for an essay.
Answer:
Simple Past: Rockwell painted and coloured surfaces with substances full of nanites.
Past Continuous: High, on the walls of which are the original painting, by
Rockwell.
Past Perfect: Rockwell had gone home; then had worked slowly on toward his painting.
Past Perfect Continuous: Rockwell had been painting for 2 hours.
Explanation:
B. Dave will take us to the field before the game.
C. Let's walk to the picnic.
D. The car was parked next to the church.
b. They love one another very much.
c. They used to be much closer than they are now.
d. They are always competing with one another.