Directions: Fill in the blank:

The President of the United States, accompanied by his advisors, _______ en route to Europe.

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

NIMCET 2013 Official Paper

Answer 1

The correct answer is 'was.'

Key Points

In the given sentence, the noun subject 'President' is a singular subject.
We know that a singular subject always takes a singular verb.
From the given options, only the third option 'was' is the first and third-person singular past verb.

Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

Complete Sentence: The President of the United States, accompanied by his advisors, was en route to Europe.

Additional Information

Subjects and verbs must agree with one another in number (singular or plural).
If a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is a plural, its verb must also be plural.