MMS-5 Narrow path

Subject-verb-agreement

• Fill in the spaces by using the word in parenthesis to create grammatically correct sentences.

• You need to use between one to three words

• For example: When we reach Norway, we will have biked 500 km. (bike)

1. When I ________him he ________ a picture of his wife. – ________ it? (see, paint, you like)

2. The car had nobody in it but the engine ________. (run)

3. Ken can’t have the newspaper now because his grandmoter ________ it. (read)

4. This store ________for good next Friday. (close)

5. Where ________tonight? – I ________out with Mark. (you go, go)

6. At midnight,  Daniel  ________up his husband and said that he ________ that someone ________to get into the house. (wake, think, try)

7. When you see me next time I ________my new sweet sunglasses, bro. (wear)

8. This motorcycle ________in our family for the last 25 years. My father ________it for the first five years, then my sister ________ it and I ________it since then. (be, use,ride,have)

9. Some time ago I ________that our King ________to go to Svalbard. What ________to do there? (read, want, he want)

10. You see, Dr. Acula, he ________ill two days ago and since then he ________anything and is awfully pale. I’m sure he ________several kilos. (fall, not eat, lose)

11. Most students ________at school when the fire ________. (be, start)

12. After several years of travelling through Asia I ________back to Europe next month. I ________the flight (go, already book)

13. I saw her when she ________the house. I ________at the corner when she ________by. She ________ a word and I ________a word either. (leave, just stand, pass, not say , not say)

Inversion exercise

1. Change the quotes from Dweck's speech using inversions.

2. Only invert the text in bold.

3. Write your answers in your notebook or on a whiteboard

4. Please mind that might need to add or remove words.

5. For example:

• A unique situation + "First of all, we can praise wisely, not praising intelligence or talent."

• ➜ Rarely do we praise wisely. (Please note that I added rarely and do as well as removing can.)

1. A unique situation + "Instead of luxuriating in the power of yet, they were gripped in the tyranny of now."

2. A short amount of time, or almost not + "On the left, you see the fixed-mindset students. There's hardly any activity. They run from the error."

3. Understanding a situation + "In another study, after a failure, they looked for someone who did worse than they did so they could feel really good about themselves."

4. Not understanding a situation + "Instead of luxuriating in the power of yet, they were gripped in the tyranny of now."