Mixed Practice Exercises (Advanced)

This advanced review combines every subject-verb agreement pattern in complex, exam-style sentences. You will encounter multiple nested phrases ("The head of the departments responsible for recruitment has resigned"), relative clauses between subjects and verbs, tricky nouns like "news" and "scissors," and variable indefinite pronouns where "some" and "none" change depending on the noun they refer to.

At B2 level, examiners expect you to handle all these patterns simultaneously without hesitation. The most challenging sentences combine two or more rules: "None of the evidence gathered by the investigators over the past three months points to a single suspect" — "none" with an uncountable noun ("evidence") takes a singular verb, and three phrases separate it from the verb. Success at this level requires automatic recognition of the subject, regardless of how many words intervene between it and the verb. Cambridge First and IELTS both reward this precision in their grammar and accuracy scoring criteria.