Question

Вставте правильно were/was и если можно объясните как определить куда что ставить?

 

There was a kremlin in the centre of the town but un the eighteenth century its wall and towers ______________ (to destroy) by a great fire.In the eighteenth century the town began to grow because the road between St Petersburg and Moscow ___________(to build) and the town stood near the road.

Answer 1

1. were destroyed( стена и башни-мн число, поэтому were)

2. were built ( Санкт-Петербург и Москва, мн число, значит, were)

Was- ед число

Were- множественное