Multiple choice

After this season’s record-shattering performance, the team were touted as the country’s best cricket squad in decades; no critic or follower had anything but praise for the young cricketers.

  1. the team were touted as the country’s

  2. the team was touted as the country’s

  3. the country touted the team like the

  4. touting the team as the country’s

  5. they were touting the team as the country’s
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Options (3), (4) & (5) are incorrect because of wrong use of modifiers. Options (1) & (2) differ in the use of singular and plural verbs. ‘Team’ being a collective noun should take a singular verb. Hence (2).

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