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22)Today I saw two calico cats, a monarch butterfly, and three fluffy dogs on the way to work, but __________ my favorite animals of the morning. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?SECAGREN-047they wereit wasthe eagle I saw wasthe turtles I saw were

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22)Today I saw two calico cats, a monarch butterfly, and three fluffy dogs on the way to work, but __________ my favorite animals of the morning. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?SECAGREN-047they wereit wasthe eagle I saw wasthe turtles I saw were

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The correct answer is "they were". This is because the subject of the sentence is plural (two calico cats, a monarch butterfly, and three fluffy dogs), so the verb and pronoun must also be plural to agree with the subject.

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