Exercise 16. Use the appropriate iorm of the verb.

1. Huckleberry's hard pantings __ his only reply, (was, were) (Twain) 2. There __ many a true word spoken in jest, Mr. Cokane. (is, are) (Shaw) 3. Each of us __ afraid of the sound of his name, (was, were) (Bennett) 4. On such meetings five minutes __ the time allotted to each speaker, (was, were) (London) 5. Neither his father nor his mother __ like other people... (was, were) (Dreiser) 6. It was dark and quiet. Neither moon nor stars __ visible. (was, were) (Collins) 7. Plenty of girls __ taken to me like daughters and cried at leaving me... (has, have) (Shaw) 8. He and I __ nothing in common, (has, have) (Galsworthy) 9. But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman __ taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance, (has, have) (Ch. Bronte) 10. To be the busy wife of a busy man, to be the mother of many children... __, to his thinking, the highest lot of woman, (was, were) (Trollope) 11. Her family __ of a delicate constitution, (was, were) (E. Вгопte) 12. Hers __ a large family, (was, were) 13. " Well, " says my lady, " __ the police coming? " (is, are) (Collins) 14. Nobody __ I am here, (knows, know) (London) 15. But after all, who __ the right to cast a stone against one who __ suffered? (has, have; has, have) (Wilde) 16. There are men who __ dominion from the nature of their disposition, and who __ so from their youth upwards, without knowing... that any power of dominion belongs to them, (exercises, exercise; does, do) (Trollope) 17. Plain United States __ good enough for me. (is, are) (London) 18. He half started as he became aware that someone near at hand __ gazing at him. (was, were) ((Aldington) 19. Fatting cattle __ from 5 to 10 gallons of water a head daily, (consume, consumes) (Black) 20. She is supposed to have all the misfortunes and all the virtues to which humanity __ subject, (is, are) (Trollope) 21. It was a market-day, and the country people __ all assembled with their baskets of poultry, eggs and such things... (was, were) (Thackeray) 22. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church __ distinctly against matrimony, (was, were) (Wilde) 23....Ratterer and Hegglund..., as well as most of the others, __ satisfied that there was not another place in all Kansas City that was really as good, (was, were) (Dreiser) 24. Twelve years __ a long time, (is, are) (Galsworthy) 25. There __ a great many ink bottles, (was, were) (Dickens) 26. May and I — just friends, (is, are) (Keating) 27. The bread and butter __ for Gwendolen, (is, are) (Wilde) 28. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us __ engaged to be married to anyone, (is, are) (Wilde) 29. It __ they that should honour you. (is, are) (Trollope) 30. Great Expectations by Dickens __ published in I860, (was, were) 31. The family party __ seated round the table in the dark wainscoted parlour... (was, were) (Eliot) 32. Everybody __ clever nowadays, (is, are) (Wilde) 33. There __ a number of things, Martin, that you don't understand, (is, are) (Wilde) 34. The number of scientific research institutes in our country __ very large. (is, are) 35. Her hair, which __ fine and of medium brown shade, __ brushed smoothly across the top of her head and then curled a little at each side, (was, were; was, were) (Priestley) 36. After some apologies, which __ perhaps too soft and sweet... the great man thus opened the case, (was, were) (Trollope) 37. It was as if the regiment __ half in khaki, half in scarlet and bearskins: (was, were) (Galsworthy) 38. Youth and Age __ a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of hjs twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business, (was, were) (London) 39. There __ a number of men present, (was, were) (Walpole) 40....the flowers came in such profusion and such quick succession that there __ neither time nor space to arrange them, (was, were) (Heytn)