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Subject Verb Agreement Exercises for Class 10 CBSE With Answers Pdf

  1. When two subjects are joined by ‘as well as’, ‘with’, ‘in addition to’, the verb agrees with the first subject.
  2. When a subject is made up of two or more nouns joined by ‘and’, it takes plural verb.
  3. Each, every, either, neither and many a are followed by a singular verb.
  4. If two or more subjects are joined by either, or, neither, nor and not only, but also, the verb agrees with the subject nearest to it.
  5. Nouns like news, physics, mathematics, measles, and ethics are plural in form but they are treated as singular.
  6. When distances, weights or amounts represent a single unit or fixed quantity, they are treated as singular.
  7. Collective nouns like group, herd, team, committee, are singular when taken as one body; but are plural when the members of the group are considered individually.
  8. Uncountable nouns like furniture, equipment, stationery, luggage, weather, advice are singular and take singular verb.
  9. “Nouns like amends, compasses, glasses, goods, trousers, tongs, police, people and descriptives like the rich, the blind, the guilty are always plural.
  10. Some nouns can have both singular and plural verbs. If we use plural verbs with them we are always correct. But if we use a singular verb we may be wrong. Some of these words are—family, government, audience, media, company, crew, public, etc.

Let us recall this from the chapters on tenses.

Subject Be verbs Has/Have/Had Do/Does/Did Other verbs
I am have (present)
had (past)
do (present)
did (past)
walk
run
go
Catch
catch
You
We
they
Are
He
She
It
is has (present) had (past) does (present) did (past) walks
runs
goes
catches

Subject-Verb Agreement Exercises for Class 10 With Answers CBSE

A. In each of the lines below, one verb does not agree with the subject. Underline the wrong verb and write it correctly.

Gauri and Tamanna is visiting the Jaisalmer Fort. 1. ………………………………
The Jaisalmer Fort are one of the largest forts 2. ………………………………
in the world. The fort stand in the middle of the 3. ………………………………
Thar Desert. Several tales of valour is attached 4. ………………………………
to this fort. Many warriors has tried to capture 5. ………………………………
this fort. A few has succeeded. 6. ………………………………

Answer:

  1. are
  2. is
  3. stands
  4. are
  5. have
  6. have

B.Choose the correct form of the verbs given in the brackets in the following sentences:

  1. Each of these producers……………………… his own advantage, (has, have)
  2. Ten miles……………………… long distance, (is, are)
  3. Many a student ………………….. hard to pass his entrance exam, (try, tries)
  4. The furniture in his house………………….. impressive, (look, looks)
  5. Few students……………….. present in the class today, (is, are)
  6. Ritesh, my best friend…………………… leaving for Japan next week, (is, are)
  7. Most of my friends………………… government employees, (is, are)
  8. The level of intoxication………………….. from subject to subject, (vary, varies)
  9. Either boys or girls……………. telling lies, (is, are)
  10. A number of people………………………. reported to be missing in the train accident at Jhansi.(was, were)

Answer:

  1. has
  2. is
  3. tries
  4. looks
  5. are
  6. is
  7. are
  8. varies
  9. are
  10. were

C. Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the verb given in brackets.

Besides encountering the strange aborigines, the first English settlers ………………………. (find) themselves in the presence of new and wide variations of climate. In their old home, they ………………………. (accustom) to a moderate temperature. Now they ………………………. (have) before them a great range of climate from the cold coasts of Maine to the hot savannahs of Georgia, with all the gradations from the far North to the deep South. To the exigencies of these variations, all the immigrants, from the British Isles as well as the Continent, ………………………. (have) to adapt themselves. Wherever the colonists set to work, they ………………………. (brave) hostile weather conditions.
Answer:

  • found
  • had been accustomed
  • had
  • had
  • were braving

D. There is an error in each of the following lines. Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided against each line.

Animal cruelty can take many different forms. 1. ……………………………..
It does include obvious and intentional acts of violence, 2. ……………………………..
but it also includes animals neglect or the failure to 3. ……………………………..
looks after its welfare. In fact this also 4. ……………………………..
include any form of psychological harm. There 5. ……………………………..
is so many ways of being cruel that Animal Welfare Acts 6. ……………………………..
may include act such as confining or transporting an animal 7.
in a way that are inappropriate for its welfare. 8. ……………………………..

Answer:

  1. forms
  2. not only includes
  3. includes
  4. their
  5. includes
  6. are
  7. acts
  8. is