Which sentence below correctly refers to the collective noun
colony as a whole unit?
Note: Collective nouns are
singular if they refer to a group as
a whole.
A. The colony of ants are carrying as many baby
ants as they can hold to the new ant hill.
B. The colony of ants, carrying all their babies,
are moving to a new anthill.
C. The colony of ants, including the queen, is
moving to a new anthill around the corner.
D. The colony of ants are moving chunks of my
sandwich to their new colony up the hill.

Match the elements of historical analysis to the corresponding information about the gettysburg address.

Which sentence about subject-verb agreement is not true? a. singular subjects go with singular verbs. b. plural subjects go with plural verbs. c. when the subject and the verb go together, they agree. d. plural verbs go with singular subjects.

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”