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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Was/Were
"Goosebumps was/were one effect that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work" -- Is it "was" or "were?"
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You're stuck with "was", because that's what you mean.
- You're stuck with "was", because that's what you mean.
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Anonymous"Goosebumps was/were one effect that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work" -- Is it "was" or "were?"Shouldn't it be written as two words, 'goose bumps'?
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corfu lingua Anonymous"Goosebumps was/were one effect that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work" -- Is it "was" or "were?"Shouldn't it be written as two words, 'goose bumps'?Yes, but such things tend to become one word as time goes on, and this one was given a great big shove in that direction by R. L. Stine with his popular Goosebumps
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enoonYes, but such things tend to become one word as time goes on, and this one was given a great big shove in that direction by R. L. Stine with his popular Goosebumps series of children's horror stories.Thank you for the information.
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