Select the correct verb form: 'Neither the resident physician nor the nurses (Hard) ___ aware of the medication allergy.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. were
- Step 1: In subject-verb agreement with correlative conjunctions 'neither... nor...', the verb agrees with the closer subject. Step 2. The closer subject 'the nurses' is plural, so the correct past tense verb is 'were'. Answer: were. Why not the others: 'was' would agree if the second subject were singular; 'is' is present singular; 'be' is subjunctive or base form.
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