Do I need to use “was” or “were” in this sentence?

I would say ‘was’, not ‘were’ in that example, but I’m British.

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Your government were very upset about that, were they not? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

It’s a measurement of size. There’s only one snow there. When the plows come, they plow once.

And if you think six inches of snow is a big deal, you wouldn’t make it in New England.

Now two feet of snow is a big effin’ mess.

My brain is oooozzzing out of my head-ish orafices and now a blob on f f fl fl fll ooo rrr kkkaaaakkkk

Last time I checked grammar sites on this it was about a 50-50 split
between the Rule of Logic (“There’s more than one thing: use the plural”) and the Rule of Proximity (“Use the form that is applicable to the nearest noun: singular if it’s singular, plural if the noun is plural”). Sounds like nothing has changed.

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