Question

Read the following sentence and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate suggestion from the answer choices. If the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose No improvement or correction is required.

There was some cute puppies in the pet store window.


No improvement or correction is required.

There were some cute puppies

There have been a cute puppy

There has been some cute puppies

There were a cute puppy

Answer 1

There were some cute puppies.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: There were some cute puppies. It is one of the indefinite pronouns which require either singular or plural verb depending on its object. In the sentence stated above, since the object is plural the verb must also be plural.