2.1. Найдите подлежащее в следующих предложениях, подчеркните одной сплошной линией, согласуйте с ним сказуемое: is, are.
1. That football team … the strongest in our town.
2. Proverbs … the wisdom of people.
3. The worst social crisis … threatening Africa.
4. Either I or you … to help him.
5. Mr. Smith, a friend and a partner of Dad`s, also going to come round.
6. Portuguese … somewhat similar to Spanish. Both come from Latin.
7. They say that the English … reserved and proud.
8. Most of the fruit … tasty.
9. An increasing number of people … learning English.
10. Every day there … more than a dozen traffic accidents on the road.
11. When … your grandson and granddaughter going to see you?
12. Either Peter or you …supposed to come here today.
13. The number of pages in this book … two hundred.
14. “Sputnik” is one of the few Russian words that … used in English.
15. Most careful users of English insist that the word “data” … a plural.
16. The pressure of living and working on board a spaceship … dangerous.
17. Traffic rules … a must for all drivers.
18. Scissors … a tool which consists of two sharp blades used to cut things.
19. Good news … always welcome.
20. The furniture they have just bought for their bedrooms … quite extravagant.
21. The economic crisis … sure to last long.
22. The Netherlands … situated in the West of Europe.
23. Everybody … bored, aren`t they?
24. It … people that most writers are interested in.
25. Physics and mathematics … challenging to study.
26. … there any cattle on the farm?
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