Тест на употребление служебных глаголов в единственном и множественном числе в английском языке

The sugartongs ... too wide for one of her hands, and she had to use both in wielding them. (Ch. Bronte)

At Capracotta, he had told me, there ... trout in the stream below the town. (Hemingway)

The papers ... dull, the news was local and stale, and the war news was all old. (Hemingway)

The deer ... ravaging the man's fields. (Twain)

I know my hair ... beautiful, everybody says so.(Hardy)

Means ... easily found. (Thackeray)

I was here before the gates ... opened, but I was afraid to come straight to you. (Dickens)

Money ... so scarce that it could fairly be said not to exist at all. (Dreiser)

These white swine ... not live. (Sabatini)

"There ... money in my pocket," I said to the porter. (Hemingway)