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文法問題
誤りを直す問題で Bが誤りで、were をwas 直すのはなぜですか?

Seeing that eight out of every ten voters were still undecided, the editor demanded that A B the paper not make predictions about the election yet. D C

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試験や文法的にはそうだとしても、話し言葉では were を使うことも間違いではありません

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every ten voters が every を使っているので単数扱い、
eight は eight voters のことで、その every ten voters に含まれるので、やはり単数扱いになります

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