Circle the correct verbs to complete each sentence

1. the mayor (listen, listens) to people and
(, ) them.

2. librarians (read, reads) to children and (tell, tells) them about new books.

3. a baseball player (hit, hits) the ball and (run, runs) to first base.

4. the musician (write, writes) songs and (sing, sings) them too.

5. the gardeners (plant, plants) flowers and (watch, watches) them grow.

Read the sentence a student wrote. as he listened to the haunting notes of the song the author realized he had found the inspiration for his next suspense novel. the teacher reviewing this sentence would point out that since this is a complex sentence, there should be a comma after “song.” compound sentence, there should be a comma after “realized.” complex sentence, there should be a comma after “inspiration.” compound sentence, there should be a comma after “found.”