The McGraw-Hill Workbook        Ex. 15-1     page 257-258

Subject-Verb Agreement

Sometimes separating the verb from the subject complement in the sentence is confusing, so the complements are listed.  Remember that subject complements accompany only linking verbs or verbs that function as linking verbs, not action verbs, which may be accompanied by direct objects.
Subject  Complete Verb Subject Complement
1. Historians have  
2. they are certain
3. inventors are difficult
4. Television was preceded  
5. Credit is hard
6. nations have become involved
7. Germany, Japan, Britain, the United States, Russia claim  
8. fact  are clear
9. "television"  dates  
10. entrepreneurs and inventors were embroiled  
11. scientist was one
12. system is credited  
13. systems produce  
14. stations  were broadcasting  
15. Depression and costs were devastating
16. RCA  was able
17. NBC  deserves  
18. sets were  
19. opening was broadcast  
20. sets were priced  

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