Interactive grammar exercise (subject-verb agreement)
from “The Flower in Prison” Part 6
Multiple-choice quiz
Select the correct answer from the choices presented.
The elderly woman who helped deliver Ok Nyeo ______ Chief Kang about the last words that Ok Nyeo’s mother told her.
tells
tell
Chun Doong and his minion ______ Dong Chang to allow them to work again for Jung Nan Jung’s trade group.
beg
begs
Gong Jae Myung tells Tae Won that it is Sung Ji Heon and Ok Nyeo’s trade group that ______ with all the small merchants in the capital.
is partnering
are partnering
Tae Won’s men at the Price Policy Division ______ him that Jung Nan Jung’s man bribed them into revealing what his plans are for the upcoming harvest festival.
tell
tells
The Queen Mother and Jung Nan Jung ______ to plan the Taoist prayer ceremony.
meet
meets
Sung Ji Heon meets the King and ______ a radical solution to diminish the Queen Mother’s power.
proposes
propose
Ok Nyeo finds out that Jin Soo Myung secretly manages Jung Nan Jung’s funds and ______ several gambling dens.
has
have
When Ok Nyeo asks the Queen Mother about the hair pin’s significance, the Queen Mother’s answer ______ her.
stun
stuns
The King then visits the Queen Mother and ______ her that he will abolish Sogyeokseo.
informs
inform
The King’s decision to abolish Sogyeokseo ______ battle lines between the Confucian scholars, on one hand, and the Queen Mother, Lord Yoon, and their political allies, on the other.