Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has an underlined part. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your response. Otherwise, mark your answer as (4).

The ship, with its crew, were lost in the torrid storm last night.

  1. was lost

  2. is lost

  3. am lost

  4. No improvement required

  5. .
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A Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as the subject is singular, ‘ship with its crew’. Thus, the verb will be singular ‘was’, which also denotes the past tense.

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