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Some of the club members haven't paid ____ dues. |
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Luis bought two records by Natalie Cole and lent ____ to me. |
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Someone on the bus left ____ briefcase on the seat. |
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The store is looking for clerks who ____ about gardening. |
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Everyone who receives high marks ____ eligible for the scholarship. |
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The League of Women Voters ____ both male and female members. |
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Neither of those books ____ available in the school library. |
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If anyone knows the answer, will ____ please speak up. |
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he or she |
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Several of the band members ____ forgotten their instruments |
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Her answer to all requests of this kind ____ the same. |
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Sentences 11-20 form a paragraph. Some of them contain agreement errors. Indicate whether each sentence is correct or incorrect.
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Neither my brother nor my dad were surprised to hear that Aunt Bonnie is going to Africa next month as a Peace Corp volunteer. |
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correct sentence (no agreement errors) |
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First, she and the other members of the Kenya group gathers in Philadelphia for a few days of orientation. |
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Their focus at this point is to meet one another and get acquainted. |
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Then the whole group travels together to Nairobi, Kenya, where everyone will have their last chance for months to enjoy hot running water! |
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After one night in Nairobi, half of them leaves for the town of Naivasha for eleven weeks of cultural sensitivity training. |
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Each of the volunteers gets to live with a Kenyan family during this period of training. |
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The close daily contact will help each volunteer learn to converse in Swahili, one of the languages spoken in Kenya. |
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| 18. |
Bonnie doesn't know exactly where in Kenya she is going to be posted. |
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| 19. |
She, as well as the other members of her group, expect to be assigned to the area of greatest need. |
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No one in the group has been told their specific job assignment, but Bonnie says she will probably be helping Kenyans develop small businesses. |
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