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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Both Smt. & Sri. Iyengar was teachers by profession.

Is the sentence grammatically correct?
  

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Hi Both Smy. and Sri. Iyengar were teachers by profession.

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HiEmotion: hi

Both Smy. and Sri. Iyengar were
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With the structures "both, both (of), and both of" the verb is always in 3rd person plural.

Consequently your sentence should be:

Both Smt. & Sri. Iyengar were teachers by profession.