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Spot the error in the sentence
One of the boys were very tall

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Answered by Anonymous
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One of the boys WERE very tall.

u shld not use were as it is PLURAL .. whereas we r talking about one boy _SINGULAR out of some number of boys .

was ⇒ SINGULAR

were ⇒ PLURAL

correct statement : One of the boys WAS very tall .

Answered by barnadutta2015
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Answer: One of the boys were very tall. Were should be replaced with was. So the correct sentence will be "One of the boys was very tall".

Explanation:

The given sentence is 'One of the boys were very tall'.

To spot the error we can observe this sentence Here of the boys is a prepositional phrase.

Boys cannot be the subject because according to the grammatical rule the subject of a sentence is never  found inside a prepositional phrase.

So that’s how we know that the subject is One and, obviously, it’s singular

'One of the boys were very tall'. For singular subject there should be a singular verb according to the subject verb agreement rule.

So the correct sentence will be 'One of the boys was very tall'

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