The following paragraph contains seven errors in subject-verb agreement. For each sentence, cross out prepositional phrases and appositive phrases,
underline the subject, and circle the verb. Bedbugs Are Back
People in hotels and apartments around the country are complaining.
Gradually more and more places, including college dormitories, has bedbugs. How does these pests get into a room?
International travel has been largely to blame. Unfortunately, bedbugs have the ability to survive for over a year without a meal.
Furthermore, insecticides from a local hardware store is no longer effective.
Your new mattress sometimes arrive on a truck with an old mattress (fi lled withbedbugs) from another customer.
Also, a bedbug easily rides unseen from one place to another in a pants cuff or a jacket.
Either a crack in a wall or a ridge between the fl oor boards are enough room for a bedbug. These invisible vampires of the night traumatizes their victims. The number of them often grows quickly
from only a few into several thounsands. Unsightly, itchy red welts are left behind by this bloodsucking bug. Nobody in my circle of friends knowingly visit a home with these invisible and nearly indestructible pests.
