Standard English ConventionsVery hardVerb agreeing with novelist across a long clause
Standard English Conventions practice question
The novelist, whose early books were dismissed as slight, ____ now regarded as one of the century's finest stylists.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. isCorrect
- B. are
- C. were
- D. have been
Answer: A. is
The subject is the novelist, singular; books belongs to the whose-clause.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. are
- Plural.
- C. were
- Plural and past.
- D. have been
- Plural.
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