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A lot of water...................... wasted. Fill in the blanks with a correct word.

Questions 131 - 150: Answer each question from the options given.

Aare

Bhave

Cwas

Dwere

Answer:

C. was

Read Explanation:

The sentence would be:

"A lot of water was wasted."

Here, "was" is the correct verb to use because "water" is singular, and the sentence is in the past tense. The phrase "a lot of" functions as a quantity expression and does not change the singular verb agreement.


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