Question

2.1. Найдите подлежащее в следующих предложениях, подчеркните одной сплошной линией, согласуйте с ним сказуемое: is, are.

1. That football team … the strongest in our town.

2. Proverbs … the wisdom of people.

3. The worst social crisis … threatening Africa.

4. Either I or you … to help him.

5. Mr. Smith, a friend and a partner of Dad`s, also going to come round.

6. Portuguese … somewhat similar to Spanish. Both come from Latin.

7. They say that the English … reserved and proud.

8. Most of the fruit … tasty.

9. An increasing number of people … learning English.

10. Every day there … more than a dozen traffic accidents on the road.

11. When … your grandson and granddaughter going to see you?

12. Either Peter or you …supposed to come here today.

13. The number of pages in this book … two hundred.

14. “Sputnik” is one of the few Russian words that … used in English.

15. Most careful users of English insist that the word “data” … a plural.

16. The pressure of living and working on board a spaceship … dangerous.

17. Traffic rules … a must for all drivers.

18. Scissors … a tool which consists of two sharp blades used to cut things.

19. Good news … always welcome.

20. The furniture they have just bought for their bedrooms … quite extravagant.

21. The economic crisis … sure to last long.

22. The Netherlands … situated in the West of Europe.

23. Everybody … bored, aren`t they?

24. It … people that most writers are interested in.

25. Physics and mathematics … challenging to study.

26. … there any cattle on the farm?

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