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The couple is. Couple is singular. It means two persons formally connected, as dancing partners, for example, and taken as a single unit. Some people sloppily use a couple to mean " some," as in "A couple of students are here." Avoid that usage.

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In American English, "the couple" is a singular entity and so grammatically it is treated as a single thing. Therefore, you would say "The couple was..."

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