Choose correct verbs in long Grade 5 sentences filled with distracting prepositional phrases and relative clauses. Four multiple-choice items and five fill-in-the-blank tasks challenge students to locate the simple subject buried inside complex sentences. Learners apply rules for collective nouns, indefinite pronouns, and tricky 'either/or' constructions, mastering CCSS L.5.1 agreement in challenging real-world Grade 5 writing contexts. Grade 5 students master tricky agreement.
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. The collection of vintage stamps that my grandfather inherited from his cousins ___ surprisingly valuable to collectors.
A) are
B) is
C) have been
D) were
2. Neither the captain of the soccer team nor the assistant coaches ___ available to help set up cones today.
A) is
B) was
C) are
D) has been
3. One of the after-school clubs that meets regularly in the gymnasium ___ a fundraiser planned for May.
A) have
B) has
C) are having
D) having
4. Each of the fifth-grade students, along with the teachers and the principal, ___ invited to attend the assembly.
A) are
B) were
C) is
D) have been
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. The box of art supplies that the students keep in the classroom closet has been restocked already.
2. Either the science teacher or her two student helpers set the microscopes ready before the lab.
3. Every one of the players on both fifth-grade volleyball teams needs to bring a refilled water bottle.
4. The flock of geese that flies south every autumn has already passed over our town this week.
5. Some of the homework that the substitute teacher assigned to the fifth graders is already finished.
Subject-Verb Agreement
★ Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. The collection of vintage stamps that my grandfather inherited from his cousins ___ surprisingly valuable to collectors.
A) are
B) is
C) have been
D) were
2. Neither the captain of the soccer team nor the assistant coaches ___ available to help set up cones today.
A) is
B) was
C) are
D) has been
3. One of the after-school clubs that meets regularly in the gymnasium ___ a fundraiser planned for May.
A) have
B) has
C) are having
D) having
4. Each of the fifth-grade students, along with the teachers and the principal, ___ invited to attend the assembly.
A) are
B) were
C) is
D) have been
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1) The box of art supplies that the students keep in the classroom closet has been restocked already.
2) Either the science teacher or her two student helpers set the microscopes ready before the lab.
3) Every one of the players on both fifth-grade volleyball teams needs to bring a refilled water bottle.
4) The flock of geese that flies south every autumn has already passed over our town this week.
5) Some of the homework that the substitute teacher assigned to the fifth graders is already finished.
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