Part 17 (2/2)

_All, those, these, few, many_, always require plural verbs _Any, none_, and _soular or plural verbs In reement in number, reason will determine the form to be used

Some nouns in a plural form express quantity rather than nuular verb should be used

Exa sentences; each is correct: _Three drops of medicine is a dose, Ten thousand tons of coal was purchased by the firm, Two hundred dollars was the amount of the collection, Two hundred silver dollars were in the collection_

EXERCISE 39

_In each of the following sentences, by giving a reason, justify the correctness of the agreement in nureed

2 The jury has been sent out to reconsider its verdict

3 The comard to one matter

4 The whole tribe was destroyed

5 The tribe were scattered through the different states

6 The regiment were almost all sick

7 A variety of persons was there

8 The society meets each month

9 The society is divided in its opinion

10 A nureat nureat

13 What aining votes is corrupt

15 Seventeen pounds was the cat's weight

16 Twenty years of his life was spent in prison

17 Two hundred pounds was his weight

18 The fae

20 A pair of gloves has been lost

21 A pair of tere sitting in the doorway

22 The army was defeated

EXERCISE 40

_Construct sentences in which each of the words named below is used correctly as the subject of some one of the verbs, IS, WAS, HAS, HAVE, ARE, WAS, HAVE, GO, GOES, RUN, RUNS, COME, COMES:_

One, none, nobody, everybody, this, that, these, those, former, latter, few, soallows, ashes, dregs, goods, pincers, thanks, victuals, vitals, roup, choir, class, army, mob, tribe, herd, coallons, days, months

EXERCISE 41

_Go over each of the above sentences and deter to the subject_

63 THE FOLLOWING RULES GOVERN THE AGREEMENT OF THE VERB WITH A COMPOUND SUBJECT:

1 When a singular noun is s, the verb should be in the plural; as, _French and German literature ARE studied_

2 When the verb applies to the different parts of the compound subject, the plural form of the verb should be used; as, _John and Harry ARE still to come_

3 When the verb applies to one subject and not to the others, it should agree with that subject to which it applies; as, _The employee, and not the employers, WAS to blame, The employers, and not the employee, WERE to blame, The boy, as well as his sisters, DESERVES praise_