ACT English Practice Test: Verb Tense And Agreement Question Preview (ID: 54827)


The Subject Of A Sentence Is The Noun That Corresponds With The Verb In The Sentence. In A Sentence Where There Is An Action, The Subject Is The Noun That Does The Action. Doer Of Action=subject. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Beans hang on the cornstalks, and squash vines had ***sprawled everywhere.
a) NO CHANGE
b) sprawl
c) sprawled
d) could have sprawled

Both the extremes of darkness and light and the constantly shifting day length ***effects people in subtle and curious ways
a) NO CHANGE
b) affects
c) effect
d) affect

By 2003, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would of ***sent thirty spacecraft to the red planet, prompting speculation that a human voyage may no longer be the stuff of fiction.
a) NO CHANGE
b) had sent
c) send
d) have sent

By the time I learned that coin collecting, or numismatics, ***had begun in the Italian Renaissance, I had developed a habit of checking every handful of change for a rare or old coin—or one that was both.
a) NO CHANGE
b) begun
c) had began
d) had it’s beginning

Dean Koontz, famous for his suspense thrillers, uses a pen name when he ***wrote mysteries.
a) NO CHANGE
b) he was writing
c) writing
d) written

Detection programs are available that ***searches for and then destroys computer viruses.
a) NO CHANGE
b) searches for and destroys
c) search for and destroys
d) search for and destroy

Dickinson's last twenty years of letters—many over 1,500 words in length—***reveals the breadth and depth of her connection to the world through a wide circle of correspondents.
a) NO CHANGE
b) reveal
c) will of revealed
d) would of revealed

During dinner, my father asked about the loss of the cobblestone road, which he and Grandpa had ***help lie and maintain.
a) NO CHANGE
b) helped lay
c) helped lie
d) help lay

Equipment for both types of kayaks*** are similar, and fairly simple. Kayaks use a short, double-bladed paddle, and an elasticized spray skirt fits snugly around the waist of the seated paddler to keep water out of the boat.
a) NO CHANGE
b) is
c) were
d) was

Everything ***has seemed possible; people want to work or play all night. Some desperate parents line theirchildren's bedroom windows with aluminum foil to convince them that it is dark outside and time to go to bed.
a) NO CHANGE
b) was
c) seems
d) seemed to be

Experienced alligator hunters believe that alligators are thriving, and authorities estimate that there ***are well over a million alligators in the wild.
a) NO CHANGE
b) are over more than
c) is wen over
d) is considerably more than

Garbage cans must now be placed on the front sidewalk and collected from the main street, what was once hidden away behind the Houses ***are now out in the open, for all to see.
a) NO CHANGE
b) is
c) were
d) have been

He thought it ***might have been made by something.
a) NO CHANGE
b) might of
c) could of
d) could

Her first job had been as a newspaper reporter, she had moved to St. Louis to write for the Globe-Democrat. In 1953 she was to ***marry a fellow reporter and left the newspaper to raise their children.
a) NO CHANGE
b) would marry
c) married
d) would be married to

Her interest in this theme grew directly from her once difficult relationship with her mother: Tan describes her teen-aged self as every mother's nightmare. Writing about those years **was given Tan a way of understanding her past—and of coming close
a) NO CHANGE
b) has gave
c) had gave
d) gave

I considered the string of Thanksgiving dinners I've enjoyed, but, and perhaps by design, no one of them ***stand out as unusual.
a) NO CHANGE
b) stands
c) have stood
d) were standing

I thought the Nancy Drew mystery series had ***went out of style.
a) NO CHANGE
b) gone out of
c) went from
d) gone from

In 1857 Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux ***were given the enormous task of transforming this area into a park.
a) NO CHANGE
b) were gave
c) was gave
d) been given

In Eatonville, Hurston went to places where she knew the oral tradition ****would be thriving.
a) NO CHANGE
b) has been
c) will be
d) is

In May 1846, a newly published book of poems ***were delivered to the home of three siblings, but no casual observer would have known that the recipients were also the authors.
a) NO CHANGE
b) were being
c) was
d) are

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