III. Choose the correct form of verb:

1. One of the students …………….(was/is) talking.

2. My friend and his father …………….(are/is) meeting is tomorrow.

3. The novelist and poet ……… (was/were) dead.

4. Ravi as well as his brother …………. (play/plays) cricket.

5. Nobody ……. what happened to her. (know/knows)​