SAT Writing and Language Drill 3.3 Conventions of Usage

used Here it is okay for one hundred billion gallons

of water is used for the thermal electric power generation

And you have okay so a personal interview got gallons

of water is used There are gallons They are used

Doesn't that sound better So there's clearly something wrong here

So to be or not to be That is the

well that's Not really a question Just whether it's questioned

letter b is the right answer right The conjugation of

the verb to be needs to agree with one hundred

thirty nine billion gallons of water Because that's the subject

it's connected teo Because quote one hundred thirty nine billion

gallons unquote is plural We need the verb to agree

with it It's A plural conjugation So they are It

is But they are right Well the singular version of

to be would be correct only if water Where The

subject that sentence That word is part of the subject

since it's part of the hundred thirty nine billion gallons

of water but alone It's not the subject of sentence

opens with each day which tells us the information describes

the present Both had been used yeah but had been

used refers to the past and make it sound like

the water usage is somehow different today which is not

the case So uh that's it Don't take long showers