Interactive grammar exercise (subject-verb agreement)
from “Jejoongwon” Part 1
Multiple-choice quiz
Select the correct answer from the choices presented.
While Little Dog and a group of butchers ______ performing the traditional ritual for slaughtering a cow, policemen led by Officer Jung arrest and beat them up.
are
is
In Sungkyungkwan, Baek Do-yang (the only son of the Justice Minister) ______ into trouble with his professor for reading a book on Western medicine.
gets
get
Little Dog delivers some beef to Translator Official Yu’s house for a party that ______ attended by foreigners.
is
are
Little Dog’s cousin and best friend, Jak Dae, ______ him to see Six Fingers, the man whom Officer Jung ______ to arrest for illegal butchery.
takes / wants
take / want
But Officer Jung and his men ______ him and the other illegal butchers in the woods.
catch
catches
Later on, after he ______ the corpse, he ______ from Officer Jung and ______ back to the hospital.
buries / escapes / rushes
bury / escape / rush
King Gojong ______ to inspect the capital incognito, but Queen Min ______ him that the ministers who urged him to do so ______ members of the Reform Party, a pro-Japanese faction.
decides / cautions / are
decide / caution / is
Officer Jung and his men ______ Little Dog; meanwhile, Baek Do-yang ______ expelled from Sungkyungkwan.
pursue / is
pursues / are
Hwang Jung, along with Jak Dae (now Yi Gwak), ______ to a bookstore to sell the nobleman’s books.
goes
go
When Baek Do-yang ______ to give up Western medicine, his father ______ him.