The plane encountered high turbulence and each passenger were asked to remain seated. In the above sentence,
A. ‘encountered’ needs to be changed to ‘countered’.
B. ‘turbulence’ needs to be changed to ‘turbulance’.
C. ‘were’ needs to be changed to ‘was’.
D. No change is necessary.
Answer:C
The plane encountered high turbulence and each passenger were asked to remain seated. In the above sentence,
A. ‘encountered’ needs to be changed to ‘countered’. B. ‘turbulence’ needs to be changed to ‘turbulance’. C. ‘were’ needs to be changed to ‘was’. D. No change is necessary.
Explanation: The verb is used to qualify ‘each passenger’ and thus needs to be used in the singular form.