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GED writing practice: verb agreement in a museum email

Question 8 of 36Agreement, harder cases

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.

Email: School tours start next week

To: All museum volunteers
From: Emerson, Volunteer Coordinator
Subject: School tours start next week

Our school tour season begins next Tuesday, and the first twelve classes are already booked. Each tour lasts about an hour and covers the history wing and the sculpture garden.

Here is how a tour day will work. The two guides who signed up for the morning tour of the history wing out the activity sheets. Teachers keep the sheets for their classes when the tour ends, and many of them use the sheets in class the next day.

Please remember that many of our visitors are only seven or eight years old. Speak slowly, ask questions often and give the children time to look closely at each display. Our tours work best when the children talk as much as the guides do.

Lunch for volunteers is set out in the staff room at noon. If you cannot make your shift, please let me know at least two days ahead so that I can find someone to cover it.

Thank you for sharing your time and your stories with our young visitors.

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How to approach this kind of question

This kind of question asks you to make verbs agree with their subject. First find the verbs, then ask who or what does those actions. Set aside any group of words between the subject and the verbs, such as one that begins with "who" or "that," because the noun closest to the menu is often not the subject. Decide whether the subject is one or more than one, and check every verb in the choice.

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