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Subham Sharma

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· 1 Months ago

When gentlemen is plural then were is right here why i use was

Question:

DIRECTIONS: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the oval corres-ponding to the appropriate letter (a, b, c). If a sentence is free from errors, blacken the oval corresponding to (d) in the Answer Sheet.

The gentlemen (a)/together with his (b)/wife and daughter were drowned. (c) No error. (d)

Options:
A)

 

(a)

B)

(b)

C)

(c)

D)

(d)

Solution:

Ans: (c) Replace 'were' with 'was'. if the subject is joined by 'together with', the verb will agree with the first subject.

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