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Poll: The battery of medical tests they did ____ very stressful.

The battery of medical tests they did ____ very stressful.

was
were
Either could be used.

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This Poll:

  • Votes: 221
  • Comments: 2
  • Added: January 2015

Comments:

mogandlola

The verb is singular because "battery" is singular. If you said the fifty medical tests they did... then it would be "were" due to fifty being plural. English, what a pain sometimes!

Ismail

According to subject verb agreement rule that says when the subject is singular the verb must be singular there since battery is singular subject it takes singular verb ( was)

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