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8 EDIT. Read the company newsletter. Find and correct six more errors with subject-verb
agreement.

Meet Gene Guerro, 92, Briteroom Electronics’s 60-Year Employee

has
Gene Guerro has been working at Briteroom for 60 years and nothing have ever
prevented him from going to work. Briteroom Electronics are going to be honoring him

next month for being the company’s longest-working employee. When he first started
college, Gene majored in economics. But economics just weren't very interesting to him,

so he changed to physics. “There was many exciting things to learn in every physics class.
In fact, physics still excites me today,” says Gene. “Everybody tell me I should retire.” And
I say, “Why should I do that? Watching TV all day isn’t for me. Half of my friends does

that, but they aren’t happy. Every day are exactly the same for them.” As Lucy Guerro says

about her father, “Work is my dad’s hobby.”

9 READ, SPEAK & WRITE.
A Work with a partner. Read the chart about the results of a survey. Then discuss these
questions with your partner.

What is the survey about?
Who responded to the survey questions?

Are your answers to the questions similar?

Survey Results: Physical Activity of Adults 45+

— . Are you physically active now?
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2. Do you plan to start an exercise
program in the next month?

3. Do you prefer walking to other
forms of exercise?

4. Do you do four or more hours of
physical activity every week?

5. Are you more active now than
you were five years ago?
! !
0% 50% 100%
HYes MINo
Source: Based on data from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)

136 NOUNS, ARTICLES, AND SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

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