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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Is the subject/verb agreement correct in this sentence?
"Almost everything we wrote in high school English was literary analysis papers."
It sounds awkward, but "everything" is a singular indefinite pronoun, so I used "was."
It sounds awkward, but "everything" is a singular indefinite pronoun, so I used "was."
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True, and sensitive writers re-cast when that happens: Almost all the things we wrote in high school English were literary analysis papers. Almost everything we wrote in high school English was literary analysis.
- True, and sensitive writers re-cast when that happens: Almost all the things we wrote in high school English were literary analysis papers.
- Almost everything we wrote in high school English was literary analysis.
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True, and sensitive writers re-cast when that happens:
Almost all the things we wrote in high school English were literary analysis papers.
Almost everything we wrote in high school English was literary analysis.
Almost all the things we wrote in high school English were literary analysis papers.
Almost everything we wrote in high school English was literary analysis.
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