Problemas de concor!dancia: Agreement

AGREEMENT = concordancia

CROSS OUT THE WRONG OPTIONS.

1. Newspapers  is / are sold in our local supermaket everyday.
2. But this English magazine is/ are  not sold  here.
3. Is/ Are these newspapers sold with a DVD?
4. In fact they is/ are being sold with a mug and a comic today.
5. I thought the headlines was/were written in Frech, but I made a mistake.
6. Was/Were they written in Polish?
7. I was/were told they  was/were written in Esperanto.
8. Was/were the article also written in Esperanto?

FEEL CONFIDENT AND TRY MORE EXERCISES

Put the verb in brackets () into the passive voice.

Use past simple passive only and pay attention to the

CONCORD AND AGREEMENT, SUBJECT-VERB.

Ice  cream puede ser contable o incontable, si nos referimos  al producto o a un cucurucho de..., usamos la misma palabra de formas diferente.

Example: Ice cream ____ (eat) in China centuries ago.

Answer: Ice cream was eaten in China centuries ago.

1. The people at the World's Fair_______________(delight) by this delicious combination. 2. Then, the ice cream________________(place) inside the cone. 3. First, the waffles_______________(twist) into a cone shape. 4. The waffles________________(use) as serving dishes for the ice cream. 5. The ice cream vendor talked with the waffle-maker and an agreement_______________ (make). 6. This frozen dessert _________________(think) to have been developed by the Chinese but recent research shows that it was first made in India. 7. Not enough dishes_______________(bring) by the ice cream vendor. 8. Ice cream_______________(sell) at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. 9. The ice cream cone_______________(create) many years later, in 1904. 10. The first public ice cream shop________________(open) in 1832 by a former White House cook. 11. Ice cream _______________(serve) by the President's wifein the White House in the early 1800s. 12. Recipes for ice cream_________________bring) to America by European immigrants. 13. By the seventeenth century, cream __________________(use) in the recipes for a richer dessert. 14. This recipe ______________(introduce) to Europe by the famous explorer Marco Polo. 15. In addition to fruit and icemilk ________________ (use) in this second recipe. 16. By the 1200s, a second type of ice cream________________(discover) in China. 17. A recipe for this type of frozen treat _______________(bring) to ancient Rome. 18. Fruit and ice_______________(combine) to make a refreshing treat. 19. This frozen dessert_______________(call) FROGURT. 20. A type of ice cream___________________(invent) by the Chinese many centuries ago.