Question

auxilliary verb
The first innings ____
(was /were)very interesting​

Answer 1

Answer:

The first innings was very interesting.

Answer 2

In the given sentence, the blank can be filled by the word 'was'.

• The given sentence is a very common example of subject verb agreement.
• Here, the noun 'innings', though have the letter 's' in the end, does not specify any plural word.
• The word itself is singular. So, it will carry a singular form of the verb.
• So, 'was' is the correct form of the verb which needs to be used here.