This book, including all its chapters, ________ interesting. The students as well as the instructor ________ in agreement about it.
is, are
Subject-Verb Agreement: Sentence Structure Analysis
This question tests subject-verb agreement in two sentences with distinct structures.
First Sentence: Book Agreement
In the sentence "This book, including all its chapters, ________ interesting", the core subject is "This book". The phrase "including all its chapters" is a prepositional phrase modifying the subject and does not affect the verb number. Since "book" is singular, the verb must also be singular.
- Correct verb: is
Second Sentence: Students and Instructor Agreement
In the sentence "The students as well as the instructor ________ in agreement about it", the subject is "The students". The phrase "as well as the instructor" acts parenthetically and does not change the number of the subject. Since "students" is plural, the verb must be plural.
- Correct verb: are
Final Answer
Combining the correct verbs for both sentences yields "is, are". This corresponds to Option 3.
Important Questions from Darwinism
From the table below, choose one or more of the options that match(es) the evolutionary biologists with the organisms they are well-known to have studied.
Evolutionary biologist Organism (P) Charles Darwin (i) Mountain gorilla (Q) Gregor Mendel (ii) Giant tortoise (R) Dian Fossey (iii) Finches (S) Frederick Griffith (iv) Pea plant (v) Streptococcus pneumoniae - Who among the following was a strong public supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?
- Of the following, which one is the most direct measure of Darwinian fitness?
- The theory of evolution by natural selection was proposed by which one (or more) of the following?
- While developing his theory of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin was influenced by the work of
