Multiple choice

Directions: Give the appropriate replacement for the underlined word(s) in the given sentence to make it grammatically correct. If no improvement is needed, mark (4) as the answer.

What are needed are not clothes but food.

  1. were

  2. is

  3. was

  4. No improvement needed
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Error of subject-verb agreement. The sentence implies that one out of the two things is needed. So, pronoun 'what' is to be followed by a singular auxilary.

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