Choose the correct option.
Correct answer: A. "Everything else - trees, buildings, bushes, earth - was gone under the moving brown masses."
- A. "Everything else - trees, buildings, bushes, earth - was gone under the moving brown masses."
- B. "Everything else - trees, buildings, bushes, earths - was gone under the moving brown masses."
- C. "Everything else - trees, buildings, bushes, earth - were gone under the moving brown masses."
- D. "Everything else - trees, buildings, bushes, earth - are gone under the moving brown masses.
Explanation
The subject "Everything else" is singular, so the verb "was" is correct. The list of items (trees, buildings, bushes, earth) is treated as additional information and does not affect the singular subject-verb agreement.
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