Interactive grammar exercise (subject-verb agreement) “The Princess's Man” Part 7

Prefect Shin Myeon makes a deal with Gong Chilgu, leader of the thugs who ______ the gisaeng houses in Mapo Port.
1. control
2. controls
King Danjong ______ to abdicate in favor of Prince Suyang.
1. decides
2. decide
The rumor ______ among the people that Minister Kim Jeong-so has come back from the dead to exact his vengeance.
1. spreads
2. spread
Royal Lecturer Lee Gae and the scholars from the Hall of Worthies ______ King Danjong’s abdication.
1. protest
2. protests
Se-ryung ______ Kim Seung-yu that his sister-in-law and his niece Agang ______ still alive.
1. assures / are
2. assure / is
Royal Lecturer Lee Gae urges him to join the plan that he and other scholars from the Hall of Worthies ______ to oust King Sejo and to restore King Danjong.
1. have laid out
2. has laid out
One of the Royal Lecturers ______ to King’s adviser that the scholars from the Hall of Worthies are planning something against King Sejo.
1. reveals
2. reveal
The plot of the scholars from the Hall of Worthies______, and they’re all arrested, together with Jung Jong.
1. fails
2. fail
Princess Gyeonghye kneels in front of the palace and, acknowledging King Sejo, ______ for Jung Jong’s life.
1. begs
2. beg
Royal Lecturer Lee Gae and the scholars from the Hall of Worthies ______ to escape with Kim Seung-yu.
1. refuse
2. refuses

Interactive grammar exercise (subject-verb agreement)
from “The Princess's Man” Part 7