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Notorioz Posted 12 years ago
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Hello all, All he could talk about were money troubles. I came across this reading a newspaper. Why was 'were' used instead of 'was'? I think it should be was
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It could be a direct quote of a speaker who uses non-standard English, or it could be that the writer altered the original sentence and didn't notice that they had left were there, or it could be a simple mistake; perhaps they were momentarily distracted while writing it.
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