The subject of the sentence is actually the gerund phrase "Making up stories," which is a singular construction, despite the use of "stories." The verb, therefore, must match the singular subject, but is written in a plural form. "Making up stories is one of the chief ways" is the answer choice that best corrects this issue.

The answer choice "argue that a feeling of connectedness with other human beings, along with a positive self-image, contributes to the overall health" is correct. It contains the correct number agreement of the verb "contributes" with its subject, "a feeling of connectedness with other human beings."

The answer choices containing "contribute" instead of "contributes" are incorrect. The subject of "contribute" is singular, not plural.

Although the answer choice "argues that a feeling of connectedness with other human beings, along with a positive self-image, contributes to the overall health" correctly contains "contributes," the verb "argues" introduces a number agreement error, as "argues" is singular but being used with a plural subject, "Freud and other advocates of introspective psychology."

The use of "all" is the key indicator of the correct answer in the sentence. While "Tom, Dick, and Harry" are singular as individuals, they are "all" together sharing their feeling as a plural group; therefore, "all lament" is the correct choice among the answers.

The underlined portion does not show proper subject-verb agreement. Although there are "children" playing, the sentence refers to "each," which is singular. "Each of the children is" is the correct answer.

In the original sentence, the noun "water bottle" is singular but the verb "were" is plural. Changing the noun to "water bottles" corrects this.

Although "pockets" may seem like the subject--which would make the original verb agree--"pockets" is actually an object of the preposition "of." So the verb "make" needs to be adjusted to "makes" in order to agree with the actual subject "Lint."

"There" is not a subject. It pretends to be a subject. When "there" is used with a be-verb, the subject complement (or predicate nominative) determines whether or not the verb should be plural. Because the subject complement "tons" is plural, the plural form "are" is required.

While "woods" appears to be the subject, it is the object of the preposition "of." "Beast" is the actual subject, so the verb must be singular.

In standard English, there are different forms for verbs. You must always ensure, in any sentence, that the form of the verb being used corresponds to the noun whose action is being described. In the sentence above, there is an error due to the fact that the subject is plural and the verb is singular. The best way to correct the underlined portion is: "Paul and Tom, who are some of the fastest runners I have ever seen,"

Note that the interrupting phrase "who are some of the fastest runners I have ever seen" is correctly enclosed with commas.

In standard English, there are different forms for verbs. You must always ensure, in any sentence, that the form of the verb being used corresponds to the noun whose action is being described. In the sentence above, there is an error due to the fact that the subject is singular and the verb is plural. It is important to remember that some nouns describe groups of people as a unit, like a "jury," and those nouns are considered singular. The best way to correct the underlined portion is: "The jury is ready to render the verdict:"