Identify the sentence that has a problem in subject-verb agreement. a. the hardware on the cabinets need to be removed before we paint them. b. several new models, especially the miata, are reviewed favorably in the april issue of consumer reports. c. all the candidates for the city council are speaking at tonight's forum. d. the sports section of the newspaper was my father's favorite reading material at the breakfast table.

The correct answer is A. The hardware on the cabinets need to be removed before we paint them.

This is because the subject of the sentence is hardware (a singular subject) and the verb is conjugated for a plural subject.

In this example, it is easy to get confused and think that this sentence is correct if you thought that the plural noun cabinets was the subject. To avoid this confusion, we can eliminate prepositional phrases like “on the cabinets” when we are checking for subject-verb agreement to simplify the sentence.

Hope this helps!

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.

attitude toward the subject implied in a literary work.

serious at times, angry, impassioned, and optimistic, but most of all urgent