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Would you say there were or there was a number of questions on the test?
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∙ 12y ago
This points to something that is such a common error today that before long it will become part of accepted language. It is correct to say there was a number of questions on the test. The verb has to agree with the word number, and number is a singular noun. You could say there were many questions on the test.
You will hear this error all the time. Someone might say there were a collection of guns on the table. It should be there was a collection of guns on the table. There was a collection. In this case "of guns" modifies the word collection. The sentence says there was a collection on the table. What kind of collection? A gun collection.
It would be correct to say there were guns on the table; the verb agrees with guns.
I find the errors a little grating, but I am not a strict grammarian. Language IS the way language IS SPOKEN, and that is how language changes over time.
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