Friday, January 28, 2011

Antarctica Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise

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Key for Antarctic Subject-Verb Agreement  
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       There 1. are a place on earth where few creatures can survive.  The land 2. are covered with ice and
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 snow, and temperatures 3. is far below freezing for most of the year.   Beyond the warm lands of South
                                                                     lie
America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand 4. lies the cold waters of the Antarctic Ocean.  If all the ice
                          cover                       were
 and snow that 5. covers Antarctica 6. was to melt, the world's seas would rise about 250 feet.
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     The only creatures that 7. inhabits Antarctica's interior 8. is insects.  However, thousands of penguins
     live
9. lives on the continent's frozen coasts.  Skuas, which you might remember from the movie Happy Feet,
     are                                                                                              live      
10. is probably the penguins' worst enemy.  Whales and seals also 11. lives in the waters surrounding the
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continent.    Most of the people who live in Antarctic  12. is scientists.