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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Use was or were?

Two days was/where hardly enough time for her to relax

Days is plural so I was wondering if you should use were? Though I hear people say was a lot?

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Anonymous Two days was/ w h ere hardly enough time for her to relax -- were Days is plural so I was wondering if you should use were? Though I hear people say was a lot? Thanks If you are thinking of each day as a separate unit, you can use "were" but with "chunks of time" you can use a singular verb for the whole unit of time.

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AnonymousTwo days was/where hardly enough time for her to relax -- were

Days is plural so I was wondering if you should use were? Though I hear people say was a lot?

Thanks


If you are thinking of each day as a separate unit, you can use "were" but with "chunks of time" you can use a singular verb for the whole unit
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"Days" is indeed plural, but in the example that you have given you are referring to a single period of time, so it should be "was" (compare "my inside leg measurement is 30 inches" not "are 30 inches").
Simon Stanley.
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Anonymous (compare "my inside leg measurement is 30 inches" not "are 30 inches")
That's not the same. Verb number follows the speaker's concept of the subject, not the predicate nominative.
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