Question

(a) Either the students or the teacher were to be
held responsible correct the grammatical mistakes​

Answer 1

Answer:

Fascinating question. ‘either . . or . . ‘ normally takes the singular verb after singular subjects. However, this sentence has a plural subject and a singular subject. Neither ‘is’ nor ‘are’ would handle this situation. Better to spell it out = “Either the students are coming or the teacher is coming.”