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Fractions Percentages AgreementSet 2

1Most of the coffee ..... sugar.

2Poultry ..... gone up in price in most fresh houses.

3Fifty percent of the grain shipment, which contained several contaminated batches, have already been quarantined by inspectors.

4Half of the fish caught ..... dead.

5Some sugar ..... needed to make it delicious!

6Statistics ..... a branch of Mathematics.

7That bag of oranges ..... a healthy snack.

8Half of the contestants ..... from South America.

9Two-thirds of the school's population (speak, speaks) Pangalatok.

10The rest of the day ..... for reading and recreation.

11One third of the population ..... poor

12More than half the drain ..... been desilted.

13One fifth of the corn field ..... destroyed by the grasshoppers

14Ten percent of the budget (is / are) allocated for marketing.

15Choose the correct variant. 60% of our food ..... produced in this country.

16There are also 1 / 2 / 3 additional modules.

17One hundred alumni

18Which is correct when checking attendance?

19Three quarters (of a potato) is water. Almost half (the plants) were killed.

20Choose the verb that correctly completes the sentence: Most of the pizzas (a. was, b. were) sold.

21Four times eight ..... thirty-two

22Which sentence correctly uses Rule 7?

23Two tablespoons of sugar ..... enough for the big pot of curry.

24Choose the correct verb for the following sentence: Most of the cake ..... gone by the end of the party.

25One in five students ..... choosing to attend the university.

26Identify the correct verb form: Some of the water ..... spilled.

27When FRACTIONS and PERCENTAGES are used as subjects they take SINGULAR but when they are followed by OF, the form of the verb depends on the noun after the preposition OF.

28Half of the students in this class ..... from Jogja.

29Most of the students ..... correct.

30Percent of the rice (be) imported recently.

31A quarter of the sugar ..... used up baking the cake yesterday.

32Half of the worksheets ..... missing.

33The first half of the class ..... of lecture and note-taking.

34Some of the furniture ..... missing from the office.

35At least three-quarters of that book on famous Americans ..... about people who lived in the nineteenth century.

36Almost 50% of the book ..... about the vice president.

37Fifty percent of the audience (was / were) satisfied with the performance.

38Seventy-five percent of the volunteers ..... not develop side effects from the vaccine.

39Choose the correct verb: "A high percentage of the population ..... unemployed."

40Find the errorApproximately 80 percent of farm income in Utah it is derived from livestock and livestock products.

41These news ..... broadcasted on Radio BBC.

42The percentage people who past this test ..... very high.

43Three quarters of a ton ..... too much

44Choose the best answer: 15 percent of all persons in the class (answer, answers) the questions correctly.

45Select the correct verb to create subject-verb agreement: A basket of fresh apples (was, were) left on the counter.

46Five and seven ..... twelve

47Mary had a hard time when she was coming home from the store because the bag of groceries ..... too heavy for her to carry

48Two-thirds of the work ..... completed.

49A: "The hotel is suffering a great loss."B: "Yes, only ten percent of their rooms .....

50A third of the students ..... passed the test.

51True or False:In the sentence 'Some of the pizza is gone, ' the verb 'is' is correct because 'pizza' is a singular, non-count noun.

52The oxygen makes up about 70 percent of the atmosphere.

53The percentage of households with internet access ..... increased steadily over the past decade.

54Twenty times fives ..... one hundred.

55Some 30% of the milk drunk in the country ..... imported.

56(Quantitative Expressions) Fifty percent of the students ..... absent.

57SVA: Seventy five percent of the children ..... illiterate.

58Half of the class ..... empty.

59Rule 10: With fractions, percentages, and the quantifiers all (of), a lot of, verb agreement depends on the noun coming after these phrases. Fill in the blank with the correct verb form: One-half of the information ..... relevant.

60One-third of the cakes ..... delivered to teh customer on time.

61Most of the news ..... good.