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Your friend said that as you are referring to an expert, which is singular, then was is correct.

Yet again you are wrong

were is the subjunctive tense , whether singular or plural.

Grammar FACT


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Where are the Grammar police when you need them?...I used to see them on the beat correcting simple grammar errors, now you don't see any any more....Little wonder the standard of written English is declining. Its a crying shame. It rally is.
 
Yet again you are wrong

were is the subjunctive tense , whether singular or plural.

Grammar FACT


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So, the expert were in the room, was he? If you had said people or experts or specialists it would be the case.

Full stop not working on your keyboard? You just seem to use random dots, four, which is meaningless or none.

BTW, I suggest you look up subjunctive. Your friend might be in a mood over it.
 
Where are the Grammar police when you need them?...I used to see them on the beat correcting simple grammar errors, now you don't see any any more....Little wonder the standard of written English is declining. Its a crying shame. It rally is.

It rally, rally is. Especially use of its and it's.

I refer you to the earlier post regarding use of number of dots.
 
One who lobs a bottle onto a stage should be termed a Lob On.

Somebody did that at a Style Council gig in Birmingham around ‘87 aimed it at DC Lee. PW unhooked his guitar which dropped to the ground, making a very loud noise, ran across the stage & dived in after the ****er. Talbot followed, PW’s old man got stuck in before security restored order. Weller got back on stage said something profound & ****ed off. They came back on about 10 minutes later.

All adds to the entertainment.
 
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Somebody did that at a Style Council gig in Birmingham around ‘87 aimed it at DC Lee. PW unhooked his guitar which dropped to the ground, making a very loud noise, ran across the stage & dived in after the ****er. Talbot followed, PW’s old man got stuck in before security restored order. Weller got back on stage said something profound & ****ed off. They came back on about 10 minutes later.

All adds to the entertainment.

I remember Keith Richards booting someone in the face at Blackpool and it causing a bit of a riot.
 
Somebody did that at a Style Council gig in Birmingham around ‘87 aimed it at DC Lee. PW unhooked his guitar which dropped to the ground, making a very loud noise, ran across the stage & dived in after the ****er. Talbot followed, PW’s old man got stuck in before security restored order. Weller got back on stage said something profound & ****ed off. They came back on about 10 minutes later.

All adds to the entertainment.
PW's old man would have been the one to avoid in that altercation!
 
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Somebody did that at a Style Council gig in Birmingham around ‘87 aimed it at DC Lee. PW unhooked his guitar which dropped to the ground, making a very loud noise, ran across the stage & dived in after the ****er. Talbot followed, PW’s old man got stuck in before security restored order. Weller got back on stage said something profound & ****ed off. They came back on about 10 minutes later.

All adds to the entertainment.

That's Entertainment ...
 
So, the expert were in the room, was he? If you had said people or experts or specialists it would be the case.

Full stop not working on your keyboard? You just seem to use random dots, four, which is meaningless or none.

BTW, I suggest you look up subjunctive. Your friend might be in a mood over it.

"If I were a grammar pedant from Brid..." is the subjunctive.

"He was a grammar pedant from Brid" is the past or imperfect tense.

I hope you can see the difference.

It's becoming tedious for us all to have to correct your misapprehensions and wrongful assumptions.
 
"If I were a grammar pedant from Brid..." is the subjunctive.

"He was a grammar pedant from Brid" is the past or imperfect tense.

I hope you can see the difference.

It's becoming tedious for us all to have to correct your misapprehensions and wrongful assumptions.

You still haven’t quite got what subjunctive is, have you?