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Question 77

There ___ very little daylight in the room at dawn.

  1. isCorrect answer
  2. are
  3. were
  4. be

Explanation

Very little daylight is an uncountable notional subject, so existential there takes the singular present verb is. Are wrongly treats daylight as plural, while were changes the tense and be is not finite.

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Question 77: There ___ very little daylight in the room at dawn. · English Subject-Verb Agreement · Questena