1A bevy of ...............
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A "bevy" can mean a group of "girls" in traditional collective-noun usage.
2A litter of ...............
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A "litter" is commonly a group of young animals such as "puppies" born to the same mother.
3Each of the girls ............... given a present.
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Use "was" because "each" is singular even when it refers to several girls.
4She accompanied her children ............... the bus stop.
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Use "to" before the destination after "accompanied her children".
5The father, unlike his sons, ............... hard-working.
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Use "is" because the subject "the father" is singular.
6He, as well as I, ............... interested in music.
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Use "is" because the verb agrees with "He," not with "as well as I".
7I had hardly reached the station ............... the train left.
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Use "when" in the fixed pattern "hardly... when". "Than" is used with "no sooner", not with "hardly".
8"Don't open the packet." Change this sentence into the passive voice.
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The passive form of the negative imperative is "Let the packet not be opened."
9Either the teacher or the students ............... clean the classroom.
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Use "have to" because the verb agrees with the nearer plural subject "students".
10............... begins at home.
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The correct word in the proverb is "Charity".
11To meet one's Waterloo means to ...............
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The idiom "meet one's Waterloo" means to "suffer a final defeat".
12The plural of "ox" is ...............
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The irregular plural of "ox" is "oxen".
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- A bevy of girls.
- A litter of puppies.
- Each of the girls was given a present.
- She accompanied her children to the bus stop.
- The father, unlike his sons, is hard-working.
- He, as well as I, is interested in music.
- I had hardly reached the station when the train left.
- “Don’t open the packet.” Change this sentence into the passive voice. — Let the packet not be opened.
- Either the teacher or the students have to clean the classroom.
- Charity begins at home.
- To meet one’s Waterloo means to suffer a final defeat.
- The plural of “ox” is oxen.