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Subject Verb Agreement C2 (D)
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Trying to keep himself in fine fettle, he cut down on cakes, drinks, meats but shied away from work-outs that was the essential pre-requisite for what he had sought out to do.
The subject in this clause is the plural 'work-outs'; which should take a plural verb 'were'. This option replaces the singular 'that was the essential pre-requisite' with the plural 'that were the essential pre-requisites'. Hence, (5) is the answer.