Bell-Ringer: Subject/Verb Agreement -- Find ten subject-verb agreement errors in the following passage about Antarctica. Underline the subject, circle the incorrect verb, and write the correction above the circled verb.
is
There are a place on earth where few
is
creatures can survive. The land are covered
are
with ice and snow, and temperatures is far below freezing for most of the year. Beyond the warm lands of South America,
lie
Africa, Australia, and New Zealand lies the cold waters of the Antarctic Ocean. If all the ice and snow that covers
were (subjunctive)
Antarctica was to melt, the world's seas would rise about 250 feet. inhabit are
The only creatures that inhabits Antarctica's interior is
live
insects. However, thousands of penguins lives on the continent's frozen coasts. Skuas, which you might remember
are
from the movie Happy Feet, is probably the penguins' worst
live
enemy. Whales and seals also lives in the waters
surrounding the continent. Most of the people who live in
are
Antarctica is scientists.
