Grammar and Language Workbook

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Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 12
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Grammar
 Exercise 3
Draw two lines under the verb or verb phrase in each sentence. Then write the
tense of the verb.
future
This little device will save us a bundle!
1. By next Sunday I will have worked four weekends in a row. 
2. They have filled the major potholes on Main Street.
3. A good choice for your assistant is Ellen.
4. The speaker droned on endlessly about his trip to the Australian
Outback.
5. My first book has already received some good reviews.
6. The streets were almost empty before rush hour.
7. Christy gave Stella an abalone-covered watchband.
8. His sudden appearance had startled me badly.
9. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke eloquently against violence as a means
of change.
10. The marching band and the football team will travel in different
buses to the game.
11. Suki has seen several lunar eclipses. 
12. Lee takes pictures for the yearbook.
13. The tape is in the top drawer.
14. By ten o’clock I will have landed in New Guinea.
15. This is the employee who will replace Mr. Rogers.
16. By yesterday evening I had written thirteen letters of application for
a summer job. 
17. The caricaturist at the state fair drew a funny portrait of my family.
18. I have given you all I know on the subject.
19. Katrina scoffed at the ridiculous story. 
20. The infielder has dropped the ball again. 
21. Sonja types 120 words per minute!
22. Within an hour the rocket will have splashed down in the Pacific.

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Unit 7, Subject-Verb Agreement