TL;DR: Both were and was are used when battery of tests is their subject, including in scholarly publications as shown below. Sometimes the choice of number depends on the intended meaning. There may be a relatively recent trend of were becoming a more common choice, but both are frequent.
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Branching, Premodifiers, and Postmodifiers
I believe that what you are looking for here is whether a particular structure, in this case a noun phrase, should happen to be a left-branching structure or a right-branching one. English does indeed have both kinds, but there are rules about which one...
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Usually, in multiple-choice questions,
all of the above
is used alone, without anything following it. This means that every selection above it in the list satisfies what the question demands (in your case, which one in the list was not from the Greek medical period)
I have never encountere...
Excerpted from Araby by James Joyce:
What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after the evening!
I can't understand the sentence structure above, What at the beginning indicates it's exclamatory, but I don't see the normal structure of exclamatory sentence. Lay is...
Not really, no. A native speaker wouldn't drop the 's', and it would sound wrong. If you have trouble pronouncing the sounds together, I suggest slowing down and leaving a little bit of space between "that's" and "the" to give yourself a chance to get things right.
Statement of Justice Anthony Kennedy:
In years to come any history of the Supreme Court will, and must,
recount the wisdom, scholarship, and technical brilliance that Justice
Scalia brought to the Court.
The bold part doesn't sound very smooth to understand. Could you please tell me wh...