Question

More than one girl............absent.

1. Was
2. Were
3. Are
4 none of these

Answer 1

was

because it is not confirm that how many girls

Answer 2

The answer will be: More than one girl 1). was absent.

• In the given statement, the clause could be defined as "more than one girl".
• The phrase 'more than one' is used to define the singular form of a subject of a sentence.
• This modification results in using a singular form of the respective verb.
• Therefore, in the given sentence, option 1). was is used as the phrase before the placement of the verb describes the first-person singular form.
• The word was is an indicative form of the verb 'be'.

Hence, the correct option to be chosen to fill in the blank in the given statement will be: More than one girl 1). was absent.

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