Identify the sentence that has a problem in subject-verb agreement.
a. the sales tax increase, although not favored by some business owners, was overwhelmingly voted in by the legislature.
b. the most dedicated volunteers at our local homeless shelter were once homeless themselves.
c. handheld devices, including cell phones and tablets, are rapidly replacing personal computers for many users.
d. many musicians, including unlikely candidates such as elvis presley, has been influenced by gospel music.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she dwelt among the untrodden ways beside the springs of dove, a maid whom there were none to praise and very few to love: a violet by a mossy stone half hidden from the eye! --fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky. she lived unknown, and few could know when lucy ceased to be; but she is in her grave, and, oh, the difference to me! (wordsworth, “she dwelt among the untrodden ways”) which option explains a meaning implied by the use of the adjective untrodden in the excerpt? the maid was lost in the woods. the maid lived in a rural setting. the maid was a nature spirit. the maid suffered a life without joy.

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?

Which sentence features a correctly identified compound pronoun in a prepositional phrase? a)she and i will be at the park on tuesday, waiting for mariah and them. b)the gift grandmother brought was for me and him. c)everyone is so sure that he'll be late after traveling with peter and maria. d)after they visit the grand canyon, tianna and mom are going to a spa.