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subject/verb agreement

Posted By: Tracey on 2008-01-03
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Subject: subject/verb agreement

DIAGNOSTIC STUDIES: AP, lateral and oblique of the left ankle was/were obtained in our office.

I know this is very basic but I also type it as "were" and the spell check always wants me to change it to "was" and now on my last report my manager changed it to "was".

Anybody??


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What is the most appropriate transcript format? With, or without hyphens? One of our staff Doc.s keeps dictating this phrase and we are stumped. Of course, this one phrase does not appear to be in BOS!


Thanks for your help!


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