EXERCISE A: Select the correct word in parentheses: 1. My mother (teach, teaches) fifty boys and girls. 2. Bread and butter (is, are) nourishing. 3. Measles (is, are) a disease fatal to children. 4. Thunder or lightning (give, gives) warning of a coming storm. 5. Every man and woman (has, have) helped to make the occasion memorable. 6. Two-thirds of the farm (is, are) planted to coconuts. 7. One-half of the coconuts (is, are) to be sent to our cousins in the city. 8. Ten days (seem, seems) a short time to stay in the farm. 9. Everyone (is, are) delighted with the harvest. 10. The committee (is, are) making plans for the fiesta. 11. The committee (do, does) not agree to some proposal 12. There (is, are) a gleeful shout when one of us falls into the sea. 13. The number of affected with corona virus (is, are) large.14. A number of visitors (is, are) going to the pearl farms in Sulu.15. We (walk, walks) in the fields every afternoon.
