Which of the following sentences demonstrates proper subject-verb agreement?

An adjective is a part of speech used to describe, qualify, or modify a noun. It provides more information about a noun by describing its size, shape, color, quantity, or quality. For example, in the sentence "She wore a beautiful dress," the word "beautiful" is an adjective because it describes the noun "dress." Adjectives help make writing more vivid and specific.

The prefix "mis-" means "incorrectly" or "badly." "Misalign" refers to aligning something incorrectly. Prefixes change the meaning of root words. For example, if car wheels are "misaligned," they are improperly positioned, potentially affecting driving performance. The other options contain prefixes with different meanings, such as "ir-" for "not" and "down-" indicating a reduction.

"The boy or the girls come to school late," the verb "come" correctly agrees with the plural subject "girls" since the presence of either the boy or the girls triggers a plural verb.

"Furthermore" is a transitional expression used to add information in a logical sequence. While "nevertheless" indicates contrast, "elsewhere" indicates location, and "similarly" indicates comparison, "furthermore" is the best choice for showing the progression of ideas.

Receive is the only correctly spelled word.

This sentence uses correct capitalization by capitalizing the first letter of "The Red Cross" as a proper noun, and the first letter of the sentence. Additionally, it follows proper capitalization rules for the names of organizations and titles.

A complex-compound sentence consists of at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. Sentence A correctly connects an independent clause ("The Honey Island Swamp is beautiful") with a dependent clause ("when you're here, you'll see why we love it") using a semicolon, making it grammatically sound. The other options contain errors in punctuation and sentence structure.

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. In this sentence, "us" is a personal pronoun referring to the speaker and a group of people. It functions as the object of the preposition "for." Personal pronouns like "us" are commonly used to avoid repetition of nouns in sentences.

Sentence A is punctuated correctly because it maintains proper dialogue formatting. The exclamation mark within the quotation marks correctly conveys the owner's emotion, and the comma before the dialogue tag ("Pat said") is appropriately placed. The closing punctuation is also correct.

This option correctly uses a comma after "dull" to separate the introductory clause from the main clause. Additionally, it correctly uses an apostrophe in "it's" to indicate the contraction of "it is."