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To: Dacula
Actually, "was" is the correct grammar.

You don't include prepositional phrases in the number when matching verb to noun.

Correct: Ashley Randele and her parents, Tom and Kathy, were watching an episode of “NCIS.”

Correct: Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.”

Incorrect: Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, were watching an episode of “NCIS.”

-PJ

26 posted on 12/02/2023 1:07:07 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Thanks PJT.


28 posted on 12/02/2023 5:17:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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