Answer Key  Answer Key 

Subject - Verb Agreement - Exercise 1 Subject - Verb Agreement - Exercise 2

Part I: 
Part I: 
1. At Yellowstone Park grizzly bears (doesn’t, don’t) have names; 1. Both Democrats and Republicans (is, are) electing a new leader. 
they have numbers. 
subject: Democrats and Republicans 
subject: bears  correct verb: are electing 
correct verb: don't have 

2. In the meeting between human and bear, a wild-card factor 2. Neither threats nor hostile action (scares, scare) the enemy. 
(throws, throw) all calculations and studies to the wind. 
subject: threats nor hostile action 
subject: factor  correct verb: scares 
correct verb: throws 
3. The actors and the director (understands, understand) the lighting
3. The Yellowstone authorities should (has, have) kept thorough problems. 
records on each bear. 
subject: actors and the director 
subject: authorities  correct verb: understand 
correct verb: should have kept 

4. When some bears (encounters, encounter) people, it is the bear 4. The surfer or the swimmers (is, are) responsible for the littered
who runs.  beach. 

subject: bears  subject: surfer or the swimmers 

correct verb: encounter  correct verb: are 

5. The great national parks (holds, hold) about 200 grizzlies, with 5. A good diet and a realistic exercise plan (combines, combine) to
possibly 30 of them being breeding females.  help one lose weight. 

subject: parks  subject: good diet and a realistic exercise plan 

correct verb: hold  correct verb: combine 

Part II: 
Part II:  6. A sweet potato and some carrots provides Vitamin A, important
for healthy eyes. 
6. Behind an experimental fenced yard protecting campers in Glacier
National Park, six visitors has been fatally mauled by grizzlies in the subject: sweet potatoes and some carrots 
past 19 years.  correct verb: provide 

subject: visitors 
correct verb: have been mauled  7. The eyes or the skin is often adversely affected by a lack of
Vitamin A. 
7. Meandering downriver toward a deer, three grizzly cubs comes
within 15 yards of it.  This sentence is correct. 

subject: cubs 
correct verb: come  8. Neither bleach nor dyes really helps unhealthy hair look better. 

8. To a grizzly almost anything are food except rocks.  subject: bleach or dyes 

subject: anything  correct verb: help 

correct verb: is 

9. Lingering snow patches often become playgrounds for grizzlies 9. Ripe tomatoes, leafy Brussels sprouts, and a handy orange is rich
observed making snowballs.  in Vitamin C. 
This sentence is correct. 
subject: ripe tomatoes, leafy Brussels sprouts, and a handy orange 
10. Female grizzlies mates every third year in summer, without their correct verb: are 
fertilized eggs implanting in the womb until fall. 
10. Unfortunately for the sedentary, neither diet nor vitamins alone
subject: grizzlies  provide sufficient fuel for good health. 
correct verb: mate 
This sentence is correct.