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Now, it is hard to explain this but i'm gonna break it down to you in a moment.
Imagine you are reading a bio about a class then it says "The boys was older than the girls"
How you say "was" and not "are", the girls CANNOT suddenly turn older than the boys.
Read it again if you didn't understand.
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I've never seen anyone make this grammar error...
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I've seen it occasionally to be honest, but I tend to notice alot of spelling mistakes in books.
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Well this is a tricky one. Grammar is fun but its complicated. For example, if there was a group known as "The Boys" then you would use was as the group is singular not plural. Your example seems to depict "the boys" as plural so it would be correct to say, "The boys were older than the girls." Furthermore, was/were depends on the tense of the word. "Was" depicts something in the past while "were" depicts a conditional. This only applies if the sentence is conditional. If I were smarter, I could have graduated sooner. It is NOT "If I was smarter, I could have graduated sooner."
That concludes today's grammar class. I'll see you all in the next one!
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