Quiz on subject-verb agreement me
1,your friendship over the years and your support on a wide variety of issues (have/has) meant a great deal to us.
2,two-week-old onion rings in the ashtray(are/is) not a pretty sight.
3,every stone, leaf, and blade of grass(were/was) examined during the investigation.
4,there(was/were) a peanut cartoon and a few mother goose rhymes pinned to the bulletin board.
5,the main source of income for trinidad(is/are) oil and pitch.
6,the senator's family(was/were) one of the oldest in rome and claimed descent from the early etruscan kings.
7,only one of the many architectural treatises written in antiquity survive.

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.

Which best describes the tone in these lines "the fish"

How did the industrial revolution shape the beliefs of the romantics