Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Subject and Verb Agreement

Sunday, February 12th 2012

Dozens of musicians will demonstrates outside the Grammy Awards protesting the Recording Academy’s decision to eliminates dozens of ethnic music award categories, including Hawaiian, Haitian, Cajun, Latin jazz, contemporary blues and regional Mexican. Some protesters sees racial bias in the revisions, others sees them as harmful to low-budget indie labels. Last August, four Latin jazz artists filed a lawsuit with the New York Supreme Court claiming that the dropping of such categories had negatively affected their careers. Oscar Hernández one of the musicians who helped organizes the protest and petition. “The Grammys has given me the credibility I need to go forward to do what I do, to do the music that I love, and give me the stamp of credibility across many boundaries,” Hernandez said. “I has traveled all over the world playing my music and it is an important part about what we do.” 

Find the mistaken verb tenses in the above paragraph. Write the verbs in the correct form.
(hint: there are 8)


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1.  Why are there musicians protesting the Grammy Awards?


2.  Who filed a lawsuit against the Grammy Awards?


3.  Who is Oscar Hernandez?

3 comments:

  1. 1.They protested the grammy award for not allowing the music categories of ethick music

    2. Four latin groups

    3.one of the musicians who helped organizes the protest and petition.

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  2. 1. Why are there musicians protesting the Grammy Awards?
    The Recording Academy decided to eliminate dozens of ethnic music awards categories.

    2. Who filed a lawsuit against the Grammy Awards?
    Four Latin jazz artists.

    3. Who is Oscar Hernandez?
    One of the musicians who helped organize the protest and petition.

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  3. Dozens of musicians will demonstrate outside the Grammy Awards by protesting the Recording Academy’s decision to eliminate dozens of ethnic music award categories, including Hawaiian, Haitian, Cajun, Latin jazz, contemporary blues and regional Mexican. Some protesters see racial bias in the revisions, others see them as harmful to low-budget indie labels. Last August, four Latin jazz artists filed a lawsuit with the New York Supreme Court claiming that the dropping of such categories had negatively affected their careers. Oscar Hernández is one of the musicians who helped organize the protest and petition. “The Grammys have given me the credibility I need to go forward to do what I do, to do the music that I love, and give me the stamp of credibility across many boundaries,” Hernandez said. “I have traveled all over the world playing my music and it is an important part about what we do.”

    1. The protests occurred because of the Recording Academy’s severe mistreatment of musical ethnic groups.
    2. Four Latin Jazz artists filed a lawsuit against the Grammy Awards.
    3. Oscar Hernandez was one of the musicians who helped organize the protest and petition.

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