Standard English ConventionsVery hardSingular verb for a plural-looking title
Standard English Conventions practice question
'Great Expectations' ____ still widely read more than 150 years after it appeared.
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 one novel, whatever its title looks like, so the verb is singular: 'is'. The sentence's own 'it' confirms this.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. are
- 'are' agrees with the plural-looking word 'Expectations', but the subject is a single book.
- C. were
- 'were' is plural and past.
- D. have been
- 'have been' is plural.
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