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TOEFL Grammar: Clauses and Sentence Structure
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According to the World Health Organization,_ there to be an outbreak of any of the six most...
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were
💡 Explanation:
This sentence uses an inverted conditional structure to express a hypothetical situation ("If there were to be..."). By omitting "if" and placing the subjunctive verb "were" before the subject "there", we get "were there to be". Other options like "there were" or "they were" would result in a run-on or grammatically incomplete clause.