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Question 33

Pick the standard simple-present form of need: Every locker and storage cabinet ___ a numbered seal under the current policy.

  1. need
  2. needsCorrect answer
  3. needing
  4. have needed

Explanation

Needs is singular because every precedes and distributes over the coordinated singular nominals locker and storage cabinet. Need applies the ordinary plural-and rule without recognising this distributive exception; the other forms do not satisfy the simple-present instruction.

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