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Help the detective finish her report about the Great Cookie Heist by choosing the correct verb forms.
When I arrived at the kitchen counter, the cookie jar _________________________ completely empty. The prime suspects _________________________ my two roommates, who both had chocolate on their faces. I _________________________ absolutely shocked that they didn't save me a single crumb!
When I arrived at the kitchen counter, the cookie jar was completely empty. The prime suspects were my two roommates, who both had chocolate on their faces. I was absolutely shocked that they didn't save me a single crumb!
Use was for singular subjects (the cookie jar, I) and were for plural subjects (the prime suspects).