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Diego Simão Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Was or Were?

There is a sentence in My extracurricular English book:

It were Mike and Madeleine that went into the room.

I think it should be "were".

The whole is :

It was Mike and Madeleine that went into the room.

I wonder if it should be were or was, thank you for telling me the language points about it.
  

Top answer

Hi, I think it's definitley "was". The other, "were", doesn't make sense there. There are no conditionals, so it's just a past tense.

— Kooyeen

  • Hi, I think it's definitley "was".
  • The other, "were", doesn't make sense there.
  • There are no conditionals, so it's just a past tense.
  • And it agrees with "it" because that's the way "it's/it was" is used idiomatically: It's John who decided to go.
  • It's my parents who decided to go.
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Hi,
I think it's definitley "was". The other, "were", doesn't make sense there. There are no conditionals, so it's just a past tense. And it agrees with "it" because that's the way "it's/it was" is used idiomatically:

It's John who decided to go.
It's my parents who decided to go.
It was Jenny who told me.
It was her friends who told me.

Notice that the ve
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Diego SimãoThere is a sentence in My extracurricular English book:

It were Mike and Madeleine that went into the room.

I think it should be "were".

The verb should be 'was' so that it is in agreement with 'It'. (It was ... )
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