Another real-life practice example for ACT/SAT prep from a Supreme Court decision. This one is from "Trump v. Slaughter, " the "can a President fire a member of an independent agency" case.
In the released version of this decision, the highlighted words below read "It was".
This is a typical "subject-verb agreement" example you will find on the ACT test, for certain. The hard part is to hunt for the subject in this sentence.
Originally written, "If it was" was the intro to the sentence. Ask yourself what is being referred to? The "political branches", specifically "branches". Branches is plural, so it needs a plural verb to maintain continuity in the sentence.
These mistakes are hard for students (and everyone else, including Supreme Court Justices!!) to catch, especially when the subject is not directly linked to the verb.
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