Question

Look at the following sentences, and identify the nouns that do not agree in number. How would you revise each sentence so that the nouns agree?

1) All of the men in the obi had presented Ibe with a horn to fill with the palm drink.
2) Both her parents, who had hoped she would find a husband worthy of her beauty, shook their head in disbelief when she rejected the suitor.
3) Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie both became well known by worldwide audiences as a Nigerian novelist.

Answer 1

The second sentence needs the noun 'heads' to be plural to match 'parents', and the third sentence requires 'novelists' to be plural to agree with the two individuals named.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking for help with identifying nouns that do not agree in number in given sentences and how to revise them for agreement. Here are the corrections:

1. The sentence is correct as written; all nouns agree in number.
2. 'Both her parents...shook their heads in disbelief when she rejected the suitor.' - The correct noun should be 'heads' since 'parents' is plural.
3. 'Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie both became well known by worldwide audiences as Nigerian novelists.' - The noun 'novelist' should be plural 'novelists' to agree with the plural subject.