Standard English ConventionsVery hardAgreement with an inverted subject
Standard English Conventions practice question
Among the papers recovered from the flooded archive ____ a set of letters written by the town's first schoolmistress.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. wasCorrect
- B. were
- C. have been
- D. are
Answer: A. was
The subject is "a set", which follows the verb; it is singular.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. were
- "were" agrees with "papers" or "letters", neither of which is the subject.
- C. have been
- Plural.
- D. are
- Plural.
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