Interactive grammar exercise (subject-verb agreement)
from “The Flower in Prison” Part 4
Multiple-choice quiz
10:00
Select the correct answer from the choices presented.
1 / 10
Sung Ji Heon and his group ______ to steal Jung Nan Jung’s incoming cargo of medicinal herbs.
- decide
- decides
But the doctor that Ok Nyeo consulted ______ that there is no plague at all.
- confirms
- confirm
But the lady with the double jade rings ______ to tell Chief Kang about Ok Nyeo’s dire situation.
- rushes
- rush
Tae Won tells the King that Ok Nyeo ______ that the plague has been faked.
- have found out
- has found out
Later, Ok Nyeo revisits the place where her mother’s body ______.
- was dumped
- were dumped
Ok Nyeo tells the Secret Inspector that her mother ______ a court maid and that Lord Yoon ordered her killed.
- were
- was
The Secret Inspector (aka the King) meets Ok Nyeo, who ______ where he has been all this time.
- wonders
- wonder
Tae Won tells the Queen Mother that people ______ to think that the plague has been faked.
- is beginning
- are beginning
Jung Nan Jung’s head merchant and the bodyguard ______, but they refuse to confess or implicate her.
- is tortured
- are tortured
The commonly-held belief ______ that plagues are brought about by a king’s lack of moral virtue.
- have been
- has been
