Exercise 1
Exercise 1
BRIDGE …………………..WAS
4. George Gershwin, together with his brother Ira was the creator of the first musical
comedy to win a Pulitzer Prize.
GEORGE GERSHWIN................WAS
5. In a chess game the player with the white pieces always move first.
IN A CHESS GAME .................. MOVE
6. The Earth and Pluto are the only two planets believed to have a single room.
THE EARTH AND PLUTO …………….... ARE
8. Each of the Ice Ages were more than a million years ago.
ICE AGES.............WERE
9. The battery, along with the alternator and starter, makes up the electrical system of a
car.
THE BATTERY..............MAKES UP
10. Teeth ARE covered with a hard substance called enamel.
TEETH ..............ARE
11. The more-or-less rhythmic succession of economic booms and busts is referred to as
the business cycle.
ECONOMIC BOOMS AND BUSTS.............IS
12. The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom varies from element to element.
THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM.............VARIES
13. All trees, except for the tree term, are seed-bearing plants.
ALL TREES...........ARE
14. Fifteen hundred dollars a year were the per capita income in the United States in 1950.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS.............WERE
15. Everyone who go into the woods should recognize common poisonous plants such as
a poison ivy and poison oak.
EVERYNE...............GO
ERRORS WITH VERBS
1. The first bridge to be built with electric lights (was/were) the Brooklyn Bridge.
BRIDGE …………………. WAS