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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Means ... easily found. (Thackeray)

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

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

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