Bonus Exercise

Objective: Check for subject/verb agreement.

• Visit several of the Web sites describing workforce trends.
• Print an article describing a workforce trend that you find interesting.
• Working from the printout, choose two sentences beginning with "Here" or "There."
• Underline the subject once and the predicate twice. If you find any errors in subject/verb agreement, indicate the correct verb.
• Write a paragraph describing a workforce trend that may affect you. In the sentences that you write, underline the subjects once and the verbs twice. Subjects and verbs must agree.

Online Links

Workforce Trends Web sites

Workforce
http://www.workforce.com/

Office of Personnel Management, Federal Employment Statistics
http://www.opm.gov/feddata/

Working for America Institute
http://www.workingforamerica.org/

The Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/

International Workplace Studies Program
http://iwsp.human.cornell.edu/

Communications Workers of America
http://www.cwa-union.org/issues/osh/ergonomics

U.S. Department of Labor
http://dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/futurework/report/chapter1/main.htm

The Rand Corporation
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5070/index1.html