Yes, I get it now
Posted By: Maria on 2008-10-04
In Reply to: I don't get that - dnh
Sometimes if you don't think about it so hard and just say the sentence, you will use the correct tense without understanding why. (What I originally did until I picked it apart.)
Go back and look at the post by Riki. It's kind of like that; an unspoken referral to separate things (in that case, units) making up a whole (one thing). The same with the pounds. You could likely tell if the writer/speaker meant 50 pounds as a whole or a bunch of separate things/weights lifted separately.
WAS if referring to a whole; Were in the case of separate parts.
I kind of enjoy these types of questions even though this one has obviously made many of us confused. :)
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