Apply subject-verb agreement (L.3.1.f) including tricky cases
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~6 min eng.g3.s.ex_34

Revise Paragraph For Agreement

Prompt

Revise this paragraph for subject-verb agreement (3 errors): 'Honeybees lives in colonies of thousands. The queen, surrounded by her workers, lay eggs every day. There is many workers and few drones in the hive. Everyone in the colony work for the queen.'

M-3-S-EX-34 Illustration
Reference image of the original paragraph with errors marked in red and the corrected version below with verbs in green.

Reference image of the original paragraph with errors marked in red and the corrected version below with verbs in green. Print-ready 8.5x11.

How it's presented
mode handwriting paper single line g3
Answer criteria
type rubric
criteria
3 errors correctedCorrected verbs match subjectsTricky cases handled correctly
Hints
  1. Mark the subject (orange) and verb (green) in each sentence.
  2. 'There is/are' agrees with the following noun.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Misses one of the tricky-case errors.
  • Over-corrects a correct verb.
Used in lessons