1. Basic English Grammar Exercises (Part I)
Direction. Choose an appropriate verb that agrees with the subjectofeach sentence. Encircle your answer.
1. Did you (invite, invites, invited) Dr. Agnes Callanta?
2. When did Ferdinand Magellan ( land , landed, lands) in Homonhon Island?
3. Four hundred pesos (is, are) enough for a week food allowance.
4. Physics (is, are) the combination ofmatter and energy.
5. Blessed (is, are) those who love Jesus.
6. Hermit crabs (has, have) five pairs of jointed legs.
7. Angel falls (is, are) the .highestwater falls in the world.
8. You (is, are) happy, are you not?
9. It is raining outside, (is, are) it not?
10. Six glasses ofwater (is, are) good to consume in a day.
11. Twenty- five percentofthe votes (is, are) not enough to getthe approval ofthe organization.
12. Many a student(express, expresses) happiness and contentmentin life.
13. A number of faculty members ofa certain school in Guimaras (join, joins) the Palayag Festival.
14. Using of scientific calculators ( is, are) not allowed during the Math examination.
15. Happiness (is, are) inevitable to me.
16. Sinbad and the Seven Seas (is, are) my favorite movie.
17. Either Jose or his friends ( give, gives) cash to the charity.
18. Neither her classmates nor Kit (attend, attends) the oratorical contest.
19. Life (is, are) a precious giftfrom God.
20. Statistics (is, are) my favorite subject.
2. Basic English Grammar Exercises (Part II)
Direction. Choose and encircle the verb inside each pair of parentheses thatagrees with the subjectof the sentence.
1. How powerful ( is , are ) those effects?
2. How ( does , do ) individuals establish thatit is their turn to speak?
3. What rules ( governs, govern ) conversation?
4. How ( is , are ) verbal messages affected by gesture, intonation ,and interpersonal space?
5. Do people who ( used, use, uses ) differentinformation sources develop differentviews ofthe world?
6. How many males and females ( is , are ) in the group we listened in on?
7. What effects, if any, (does, do) news and entertainment have on viewers, listeners, and readers?
8. Some researchers ( is , are ) interested in the “hidden agenda” ofthe media.
9. What role ( does, do ) language play in shaping our understanding ofan organization?
10. Nine outof 10 doctors ( recommends, recommend) ProductXfor those headaches that come from life’s
daily stresses.
11. Communication researchers ( has, have ) interests ranging from communication between intimate
partners to the level ofmass media reaching millions ofpeople.
12. Researchers ( tend, tends) to specialize in areas defined by the numbers ofpeople they ( is, are )
studying, as in interpersonal communication, groups, organization ,or mass media.
13. Rhetoricians, those who study the use oflanguage and argumentation, may (does, do) so in all four of
these areas.
14. Advertisements ( is ,are ) targeted communications designed specifically to have consumers or institutions purchase
(usually) an advertised productor service.
15. (Does, Do) the advertisement( work, works) ?
16. Content analysis, by contrast, (is, are) a quantitative method for assessing media content, based on counting.
17. Critical analysis ( work, works) from a basic assumption that communication (maintain, maintains) and
(promote, promotes) power structures in society.
18. If women ( is ,are) represented as less healthy than men, (is, are) a message being subtly propagated
that women ( is, are) less able than men to function in society?
19. Action research ( involve, involves) engaging in research specifically to improve people’s lives.
20. Phenomenologists and Ethnographers (try , tries) to understand people’s subjective worlds.
3. Basic English Grammar Exercises (Part III)
Direction. Choose and encircle the verb inside each pair ofparentheses thatagrees with the subjectof the sentence.
1. Neither Jose nor I(has, have) a mistaken identity.
2. Either Maria or her friends (deliver, delivers) a song presentation.
3. Today (is, are) my birthday.
4. University ofthe Philippines (is, are) a National University.
5. All (is, are) well.
6. Twenty-six pesos ( is, are ) enough for my one -day allowance.
7. Three-fourths of a cake ( is, are ) given to the streetchildren.
8. Miguel’s and Lindro’s friend (is, are) my brother.
9. The three smallestbones in the human body (is, are) stirrup, anvil, and hammer.
10. The faculty ( has, have ) given the opportunity to go to Boracay Island.
11. Association of Integrated Mathematicians and Scientists (is ,are, was, were ) my former organization.
12. One of the students ( is, are) awarded by the school administrator.
13. Wearing of shorts ( is, are ) not allowed inside the campus.
14. Dancing Rumba ( is ,are) his favorite activity.
15. Neither his brothers nor Jose ( celebrate, celebrates) the birthday of their mother.
16. Somebody ( talk, talks) to the manager of the hotel.
17. Thirty percentofvotes ( is, are) given to Ma. Asuncion de Vega.
18. Almostseventy-five percentofEarth ( is ,are ) water.
19. Three minutes ( is, are) enough to wait you.
20. Every mother and father (is, are) happy to see the guest.
