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Native speakers,which do you think is a correct sentence?
1.A knife and fork was used in the Edo period(ie.from 1603 to 1868).
2.A knife and fork were used in the Edo period.
This is a question posted on Yahoo!Japan Answers(知恵袋).
I hope every native speaker will help him.Thank you all.
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Knife and fork make up a plural subject so WERE is correct.
Don’t count on “Native speakers” to always be correct. Native speakers are notoriously bad at their own native grammar.
Probably 90% of them would say “Come to the store with Jim and I” when the PROPER grammar is “Come to the store with Jim and me”
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The knife and fork were used during the Edo period (1603-1868)
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Yes, it should be
Knives and forks were used in the Edo period.
It wasn’t just one knife and fork for everybody to use anyway!
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Knives and forks were used (plural, past tense)
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Boy am I old. To me the Edo period was when Tokyo was called Edo! DUH!
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