Common mistakes
❌ Wrong:
Ten years are a long time to spend in prison.
✅Correct:
Ten years is a long time to spend in prison.
❌Wrong:
90 miles an hour were over the speed limit.
✅Correct:
90 miles an hour was over the speed limit.
✍️Note:
🔹When the subject is a period of time, an amount, a distance, a speed, the verb is singular.
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❌ Wrong:
Ten years are a long time to spend in prison.
✅Correct:
Ten years is a long time to spend in prison.
❌Wrong:
90 miles an hour were over the speed limit.
✅Correct:
90 miles an hour was over the speed limit.
✍️Note:
🔹When the subject is a period of time, an amount, a distance, a speed, the verb is singular.
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