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6. Titles of works, company names and gerund phrases are singular. For
example, Lost Cities describes the discoveries of many ancient civilisations,
or Upendo Sisters specialises in organic produce and additive-free meats.

7. Treat collective nouns (e.g., team, audience, crowd, class and family)
as singular unless the meaning is plural. Collective nouns nearly always
emphasise a group as a unit. For example, The class respects the teacher, or
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The board of trustees meets in Dodoma twice a year.

8. Make the verb agree with its subject even when the subject follows the verb.
For example, There are surprisingly few children in our neighbourhood, or
There were a social worker and a crew of twenty volunteers at the scene of
the accident.

(e) Identify the verb that agrees with the subject noun in each of the following
sentences. The first sentence has been done as an example for you.
1. Everyone in the telecom focus group (has/have) experienced problems
with cell phones.
2. Happy Family Sisters, a shelter for teenage runaways in Dar es Salaam,
(offers/offer) a wide variety of services.
3. The main source of income for Trinidad (is/are) oil and pitch.
4. Your chances of passing the exam (is/are) excellent.
5. There (was/were) a card stuck in the ATM.
6. Neither the Headmistress nor the Second master (was/were) able to
solve the mystery of the fire in the laboratory.
7. Many hours at the driving range (has/have) led us to design golf balls
with GPS locators in them.
8. Discovered in the soil of our city garden (was/were) a button dating
from World War II.
9. Every year, during the midsummer festival, the smoke of village bonfires
(fills/fill) the sky.
10. The story performers (was/were) surrounded by children and adults
eager to see magical tales.

Activity 3.4 Describing events, objects, and situations using appropriate

tenses

(a) Read the following story. The person in the story describes his/her routines under
the heading ‘My Favourite Hobby.’ Study the dominant tense and write yours.

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