Interactive grammar exercise (subject-verb agreement) from “Saimdang, Light’s Diary” Part 1

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Unable to answer Mae-chang’s last question, Saimdang simply ______ her.
1. embrace
2. embraces
But the officials ______ that she’s a girl and kick her out.
1. find out
2. finds out
The leaders of the Japanese raiders secretly ______ Hwieumdang and ask her to sell to them one of Joseon’s military secrets.
1. visit
2. visits
Lee Won-su cries as he reads Saimdang’s letter to his concubine, which ______ all the special care that he needs.
1. details
2. detail
But the Crown Prince brushes aside the objections and ______ Lee Gyeom and Saimdang.
1. back up
2. backs up
Saimdang ______: “Thinking about his love and grace, and remembering the old times, I realize he’s always been the same. The paintings ______ a place to return to. How mysterious, the will of heaven!”
1. muses / have
2. muse / has
Saimdang’s children ______ to work together to ease some of her burdens and heartaches.
1. agree
2. agrees
Saimdang struggles to keep her family together as her children ______ that their father has taken a concubine.
1. have found out
2. has found out
As Lee Gyeom and Saimdang ______ on the portrait, King Jungjong mocks their youthful romance.
1. works
2. work
But the Crown Prince’s reforms at the Office of Art ______ dissension among the artists, ______ the ministers suspicious, and ______ protests by the scholars.
1. create / make / stir up
2. creates / makes / stirs up