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GED writing practice: subject-verb agreement in a notice

Question 12 of 36Subject-verb agreement

This draft has parts that need fixing. Go to each menu that says Select... and choose the option that is correct in formal standard English.

Notice: Fresh food at the pantry

To: Everyone who uses the food pantry
From: The pantry volunteers
Subject: Fresh food is here

Good news: starting this month, the pantry can offer fresh food as well as canned and boxed goods. With a grant from a local foundation, we bought two new refrigerators and a freezer.

The new refrigerators milk, eggs, cheese and fresh vegetables. The freezer is for meat and frozen fruit. Because fresh food spoils quickly, each household may take up to four fresh items per visit, along with the usual bag of groceries.

Please bring a bag or a small cooler if you have one. If you do not, we will give you a paper bag.

Our deliveries come on Monday nights, so Tuesday is the best day to find the widest choice of fresh food.

If you have a food allergy or follow a special diet, please tell a volunteer at the sign-in table. We will do our best to help.

We are glad to serve our neighbors, and we hope this change makes every visit a little better.

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How to approach this kind of question

Subject-verb questions ask you to match a verb to its subject. Find the verb in the menu, then ask who or what does that action: that word is the subject. Decide whether the subject names one thing or more than one. Then read the sentence with each choice in place and keep the verb form that matches the subject in number.

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