Subject-Verb Agreement Quotes from Montage of a Dream Deferred

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n I know you’ve heard the boogie-woogie rumble of a dream deferred. n Verb: know n Subject: I n From the poem, “Boogie: 1a.m.” in Montage of a Dream Deferred

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n The music wraps them both around in mellow magic of dancing sound. n Subject: music n Verb: wraps n From “College Formal: Renaissance Casino”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n Listen to it closely. n Subject: The implied “you” n Verb: listen n From “Dream Boogie”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n I could...take Harlem’s heartbeat, make a drumbeat, put it on a record…listen to it play. n Subject: I n Verb(s): could take, (could) make, (could) put, and (could) listen n From “Juke Box Love Song”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n My motto, as I live and learn, is: Dig and be dug in return. n Subject: motto n Verb(s): is n From “Motto”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n Squares, who couldn’t dig him, plant him now--out where it makes no diff’ no how. n Subject(s): squares n Verb(s): plant n From “Dead in There”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n When I rolled three 7’s in a row, I was scared to walk out with the dough. n Subject(s): I n Verbs(s): was n From “Situation”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n Two or three things in the past failed him that had not failed people of lesser genius. n Subject(s): things n Verb(s): failed n From “Dancer”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n His words jump down to stand in listeners’ places. n Subject(s): words n Verb(s): jump n From “Corner Meeting”

Find the Main Subject(s) & Verb(s). n Cheap little rhymes [and] a cheap little tune are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon. n Subject(s): rhymes, tune n Verb(s): are n From “Sliver”

Choose the Subject/Verb that Agrees. n His wife (look/looks) it up in her dream book and (play/plays) it. n looks n plays n From “Hope [2]”

Choose the Verb(s) that Agrees n Lulu (say/says) to Leonard, “I (want/wants) a diamond ring. n says n want n From “Same in Blues”

Choose the Subject(s) and Verb(s) that Agree. n “(I/You) was born here,” he (says/said). nInI n said n From “Good Morning”

Who wrote Montage of a Dream Deferred? In what year did he write it? What city is the collection about? n Langston Hughes n 1948 n Harlem