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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Hello

I get confused over were/was.

"There was at least twenty others."
"There were at least twenty others."

Which one is it? Thank you in advance.
  

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There were at least twenty others.

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  • There were at least twenty others.
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There were at least twenty others.
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AnonymousI get confused over were/was."There was at least twenty others.""There were at least twenty others."Which one is it? Thank you in advance.
Unlike most declarative sentence structures, the there structure makes agreement between the verb and what follows the verb.

was is singular; were is plural.

There
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