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Forum: English Questions May 22nd, 2012, 04:07 pm
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Posted By rjaustin
Re: Emerson

The custom was to present.
Therefore the subject of the sentence is 'custom', and this is singular hence the 'was' and not 'were'.
If 'he' was the subject, I suspect the sentence would read 'as was...
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