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Witty lime 799 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Which of the following sentences is correct

Three miles of queue were observed. Three miles of

Three miles of queue was observed.

  

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Hello, Sir. The correct is: Three miles of queue were observed. The verb must agree with its subject ; when it is plural - Plural form of the verb ; when it is singular - Singular form of the verb.

— Prodigy

  • Hello, Sir.
  • The correct is: Three miles of queue were observed.
  • The verb must agree with its subject ; when it is plural - Plural form of the verb ; when it is singular - Singular form of the verb.
  • The singular form of " to be " in the past tense is: Was .
  • The plural form of " to be " in the past tense is: Were .
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Hello, Sir.

The correct is: Three miles of queue were observed.

The verb must agree with its subject; when it is plural - Plural form of the verb; when it is singular - Singular form of the verb.

The singular form of "to be" in the past tense is: Was.

The plural form of "to be

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witty lime 799

Three miles of queue were observed. Three miles of

Three miles of queue was observed.

You can do this either way. If you think of 'three miles' as a single measurement, you can consider 'three miles of queue' as a singular.

More idiomatically, however, you'll hear these:

A three-mile queue was observed
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