Question

find the error with subject - verb agreement. select the incorrect verb and type it correctly.
despite complaints received by the public works department, lowell’s city building survey found that less than twenty - five percent of the city’s restaurants offers outdoor seating that actually encroaches on public sidewalks.

Explanation:

To determine the subject - verb agreement error, we analyze the sentence. The subject here is "less than twenty - five percent of the city’s restaurants". When a percentage is used with a countable noun (restaurants are countable), the verb should agree with the noun. In the original sentence, the verb "encroaches" is incorrect as it is singular. The correct verb should be "encroach" to agree with the plural noun "restaurants".

Answer:

Incorrect verb: encroaches
Correct verb: encroach