so--that---倒装句
“So successful was the man and his team that they soon opened a new big company." 句中的was用得正确吗？是否可以用were 来替换？
A verb must agree with its subject, even if the sentence is inverted。 The question here is whether your subject (The man and his team) is singular or plural。
A compound subject that is joined by the conjunction and can be singular if it forms a unit or refers to the same thing。
For example: Bacon and eggs is a high-cholesterol meal。 In this sentence, bacon and eggs is a meal, one thing。
However, in your sentence this does not seem to be the case with your subject, especially since the subject is referred to by the pronoun they, which is usually used to refer to more than one thing。
Therefore, the plural verb were should be used。"So successful were the man and his team that they soon opened a new big company。
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