5. Test Your Knowledge: Verbs

The following questions will test your knowledge of verbagreement, tense, mood, and voice. Answer the questions to reviewwhat you have just learned.

Select the correct verb form to complete each of the followingsentences.

Each of the employees lunch in the companycafeteria.

Neither the CEO nor the CFO any recollection of theillegal funds transfer.

Mr. Adams and his assistant planning to attend theannual technology showcase.

The governor’s Workforce Development Council fromall walks of life: some are businesspeople; others are professorsor farmhands or social workers.

Everything in my home office to stop functioningwhen I need it the most.

Identify the errors in the following sentences, and consider howbest to revise them.

An announcement about summer internships are made every day.

Choose the best revision of the previous sentence.

An announcement about summer internships have been madedaily.

An announcement about summer internships is made every day.

An announcement about exciting summer internships are made everyday.

Wharton or Harvard are my preference; however, I’ll attend anyschool that accepts me.

Choose the best revision of the previous sentence.

Wharton or Harvard is my preference; however, I’ll attend anyschool that accepts me.

Wharton or Harvard are my preference; however, I shall attendany school that accepts me.

Wharton or Harvard are my preference; however, I will attend anyschool that accept me.

The committee approve the annual report before it is sent to theprinter and mailed to the shareholders.

Choose the best revision of the previous sentence.

The committee approves the annual report before it is sent tothe printer and mailed to the shareholders.

The committee approve the annual report before sending it to theprinter and mailing it to the shareholders.

After the meeting, everyone who had attended were exhausted.

Choose the best revision of the previous sentence.

After the meeting ended, everyone were exhausted.

After the meeting, everyone who had attended was exhausted.

Everyone who had attended the meeting were exhausted.

Which of the following sentences use the subjunctive moodcorrectly? Check all that apply.

She wondered if he were coming to work today.

If I were in your shoes, I’d take the job.

Mr. Uzcategui wished he were traveling to Japan with theexecutive team.

Determine whether the following sentences use the active or thepassive voice.

The operations manager performed a routine check of allmanufacturing equipment.

Does the preceding sentence use the active or the passivevoice?

Active

Passive

The report was prepared by the director of parts andordering.

Does the preceding sentence use the active or the passivevoice?

Active

Passive

Which of the following sentences show correct verb tense usage?Check all that apply.

Lorice cried every time the store manager reprimands her.

I have been planning this vacation for over a year.

He would have chose the same option, but he hadn’t saved enoughmoney.