Exercise 3 Making Linking Verbs Agree with Their Subjects
On your paper, write the simple subject or subjects in each of the following sen-
tences. Then write the form of the verb in parentheses that agrees with the
subject
Modern Circuses
1. For many people the joys of the circus (is/are) a pleasure that they never outgrow.
2. Circuses (remains/remain) a popular form of entertainment in many countries,
3. The circuses of ancient Rome (was/were) actually a group of chariot races performed
in a ring,
4. Perhaps the first of the modern circuses (was/were) a one-ring show by Philip Astley,
an eighteenth-century horse trainer,
5. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, circus performers (was/were) the elite
among popular entertainers.