MEETING 3 UNIT 4 & 5 Note

UNIT 4
SUBJECT AND VERB AGREEMENT
Examples:
1. Andrew plays basketball.
2. Andrew and Jack play basketball.
3. Scientists from all fields of the studies meet in the
international convention to discuss about the
climate changes.
4. The tetracyclines, a family of antibiotics
(appositive), are used to treat infection.
A family of antibiotics (appositive), the
tetracyclines, are used to treat infection.
5. The Mediterranean Sea, which means in the
midst of lands in Latin (adjective clause), is
surrounded by Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The Mediterranean Sea, which means meaning
(Ving) in the midst of lands in Latin (adjective
phrase), is surrounded by Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The car, which was broken by my brother
(adjective clause), was taken to the garage.
The car, which was broken (V3) by my brother
(adjective phrase), was taken to the garage.
Exercise A
Fill in the blanks with the correct words/phrases.
1. Oscillatona, one of the few plants that can move
about, … a wavy, gliding motion.
A. having
B. has
C. being
D. with
2. Each of the doctors in the building … to have a

separate reception area now.
A. need
B. needs
C. needed
D. needing
Noun:
1. Countable
a.Regular: book -> books, box -> boxes
b. Irregular: tooth -> teeth, foot -> feet
2. Uncountable: flour, milk, happiness
3. If … of economic cycles had been helpful in

predicting turning points in cycles, they would have
been used more consistently.
A. psychological theories
B. psychological theory
C. theories psychologies
D. theoretical psychologists
4. Most of musicians involving in the orchestra … the
beauty of the music arrangement.
A. prioritize
B. prioritizes
C. prioritizing
D. is prioritizing
Most of the water has already gone.
5. Your friendship over the years and your support …

meant a great deal to us.
A. has + V3 -> present perfect active
B. have + V3 -> present perfect active
C. is + V3 -> present simple passive
D. are + V3 -> present simple passive
He bought a book.
The book was bought.
Choose the incorrect part in each sentence.
6. Teacher in the practicum laboratory is teaching /
teaches the students reproduction organs in the
biology class.
7. The great digital advances of the electronic age,

such as integrated circuitry and a microcomputer,
has have been planted (present perfect passive) in
tiny chips.
8. There is are about 600 schools in the United

States that use the Montessori Method to
encourage individual initiative.
There is a store in the corner.
9. Hamilton Family Center, a shelter for teenage

runaways in San Francisco, offers a wide variety of
services.
10. Many hours at the driving range has have led us
to design golf balls with GPS locators in them.
UNIT 5
CONDITIONAL SENTENCE
If S + V, S + V
Type 0:
If you don’t brush your teeth, you get cavities.
Type 1:
If she studies hard (condition), she
will/can/may/shall/must/have to/has to get (Vbase)
good score (fact).
Type 2:
If I had much money, I
could/would/might/should/must/had to go (Vbase)
to Italy.
Fact: I can’t go to Italy.
If I were Linda, I would accept their offer.
Were I Linda, I would accept their offer.
Fact: Linda doesn’t accept their offer.
Type 3:
If I had gone to the party, I could have met him.
Fact: I didn’t meet him.
Had I gone to the party, I could have met him.
Exercise B
Fill in the blanks with the correct words/phrases.
1. If water is heated to 212 degrees F, … as steam.
A. it will be boiled and escaped
B. it boils and escapes
C. it is boiling and escaping
D. it would boil and escape
2. If Americans ate fewer foods with sugar and salt,

their general health … better.
A. be
B. will be
C. is
D. would be
3. If you … the plant in a cooler location, the leaves

would not have burned.
A. had set
B. have set
C. has set
D. set
4. The report would have been accepted, … in

checking its accuracy.
A. if more care were taken
B. if more care have been taken
C. had been taken more care
D. had more care been taken
5. If dinosaurs … roaming the earth, man would have

evolved quite differently.
A. continued
B. had continued
C. continue
D. continues
Choose the incorrect part in each sentence.

6. If windows is are open in the building, some of the
inside air will rush out through them.
7. If biennials were planted this year, they will would

be likely to bloom next year and every two years
thereafter.
8. A founded bacterium would be just about the size

of a pinhead, if you enlarged it a thousand times.
9. Amelia Earhart would have continued to seek new
adventures and records to break if she has had not
died at the age of 39.
10. If antibiotics had not been discovered, maggot
therapy will would have been more popular.
Exercise C
1. The men of the community ____ not support
(Vbase) the leader.
A) does
B) have + not supported
C) has
D) do
E) is
2. The children of the man who works with me

____ broken the window this morning.
A) were
B) have
C) had
D) has
E) was
3. Students' minds ____ about the order of
structures.
A) has been confused
B) have been confused
C) had confused
D) have confused
E) has confused
4. All the furniture (uncountable) that I bought

____ at my home now.
A) are
B) was
C) is
D) were
E) have been
5. Events taking place in every part of the world
____.
A) are enjoying life
B) has interested me
C) were our close relatives
D) interest many politicians of the country
E) due to some information of the world news
agents
6. If I had known that you were a careless driver, I

____ with you.
A) wouldn't come
B) might come
C) would be coming
D) had come
E) wouldn't have come
7. If it ____ during the night, the streets would
have been wet. But now the streets are dry.
A) rained
B) has rained
C) had rained
D) have been raining
E) would have rained
8. Unless it rains, I ____ shopping tomorrow.

A) go out
B) would go
C) will go
D) will be going
E) am going
9. If you ____ more carefully, you wouldn't be
dealing with so many mistakes now.
A) could work
B) work
C) might have worked
D) worked
E) had worked
10. If one gives that dog a bone, he ____ it right

away. He is a digger.
A) buried
B) won't bury
C) would bury
D) could bury
E) will bury
11. Each + candidate (singular) ____ ﬁll in these
forms and sign them.
A) are to
B) have to
C) apt to
D) has to
E) were to
12. Istanbul ____ in 1453 by Sultan Mehmet the

Conqueror.
A) had been conquered
B) conquered
C) was conquered
D) would be conquered
E) had conquered
13. Nobody ____ able to escape from the ﬁnal
conclusion: death.
A) can
B) were
C) are
D) is
E) have been
14. Nobody in the classroom ____ able to answer

the question about subject-verb agreement
yesterday.
A) were
B) is
C) will be
D) can
E) was

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UNIT 4

SUBJECT AND VERB AGREEMENT

2. Each of the doctors in the building … to have a

3. If … of economic cycles had been helpful in

5. Your friendship over the years and your support …

7. The great digital advances of the electronic age,

8. There is are about 600 schools in the United

There is a store in the corner.

9. Hamilton Family Center, a shelter for teenage

2. If Americans ate fewer foods with sugar and salt,

3. If you … the plant in a cooler location, the leaves

4. The report would have been accepted, … in

5. If dinosaurs … roaming the earth, man would have

Choose the incorrect part in each sentence.

7. If biennials were planted this year, they will would

8. A founded bacterium would be just about the size

2. The children of the man who works with me

4. All the furniture (uncountable) that I bought

6. If I had known that you were a careless driver, I

8. Unless it rains, I ____ shopping tomorrow.

10. If one gives that dog a bone, he ____ it right

12. Istanbul ____ in 1453 by Sultan Mehmet the

14. Nobody in the classroom ____ able to answer

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