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Yadoo86 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Was Or Were?

Hello everyone,

I'm quite interested to know whether we should use was or were in the following sentence:

What many scientists approved (was/were) amazing.

To my knowledge, We should use singular. Actually, I don't know whether that is right or not!!!!

Thanks in advance.
  

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yadoo86 What many scientists approved (was /were) amazing. was. When a what clause is the subject, use a singular verb.

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yadoo86 What many scientists approved (was/were) amazing.
was. When a what clause is the subject, use a singular verb.

What they did was wrong.
What the kids like to do is play baseball.
What is strange is that John never showed up.
What you say proves my po
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I think the answer is "was".
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