Fill in the blanks.
1. Each of these students ……………………… English.
Correct!
Wrong!
Use a singular verb after each.
2. Each of these shirts ……………………….. good on you.
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Wrong!
Use a singular verb after each.
3. Everyone of them ……………………….. present in the courtroom.
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Wrong!
Use a singular verb after everyone.
4. …………………………. is lost.
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Wrong!
5. Let ……………………….. speak.
Correct!
Wrong!
Use an object pronoun after let.
6. Your problems are bigger than ………………………………
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Wrong!
Your problems are bigger than mine means your problems are bigger than my problems.
7. That friend of ………………………… is a cheater.
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Wrong!
8. None of us …………………………….. seen him after that fateful day.
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Wrong!
A singular verb is preferred after none of.
9. I don’t like these …………………………… of movies.
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Wrong!
Use kinds, sorts and types after these and those.
10. ………………………….. a cloudy day, we did not go out.
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Wrong!
11. You are worse than ………………………….
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Wrong!
Object pronouns are preferred after as and than.
12. Go now and …………………………….
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Wrong!
Enjoy is a transitive verb. It always requires an expressed object.
Answers
- Each of these students speaks English.
- Each of these shirts looks good on you.
- Every one of them was present in the courtroom.
- All my money is lost.
- Let him speak.
- Your problems are bigger than mine.
- That friend of yours is a cheater.
- None of us has seen him after that fateful day.
- I don’t like these kinds of movies.
- It being a cloudy day, we did not go out.
- You are worse than him.
- Go now and enjoy yourself.
