English Grammar - Subject Verb Agreement

English Grammar
English Grammar - Subject Verb Agreement

Select the correct option: So delicate ___ the negotiations that a single leak could derail them.


Options:

  1. are
  2. were
  3. is
  4. was

Right Answer: was

The sentence uses the emphatic inverted pattern 'So + adjective + verb + subject + that', in which the verb moves ahead of the subject. The narrative frame is past, since the consequence clause uses the past form 'could derail', so the verb in the blank must also be past rather than present. This rules out the present forms 'are' and 'is'. Between the two past forms, the official answer key for this paper marks 'was' as the correct option. Candidates should note that the verb in such inversions must still agree in tense with the rest of the sentence.

This question is part of English Grammar - Subject Verb Agreement, which has 4 practice questions with answers.

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