There were a couple of misunderstanding in other answers, so this is just to clear it up... "There was a lot of equipment in the garage; you could have picked up any tools you needed." Basically, "There ____ a..." can only have "is" or "was", because of the singular "a" which follows. Note the semicolon (a comma would be unacceptable in a proper publication). "A lot" is never spelt "alot"! That's a mistake, and unfortunately a rather common one. Have a read of this (and laugh): http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html Also, it's an embarrassing mistake to write an uncountable noun in plural form! "Equipments" is simply wrong. The only proper way of writing it is "pieces of equipment". "Salma has not seen the movie yet, and neither have I." The tag-comment needs a reversed order, because it's subordinate to the main comment. In a nutshell.

Maybe you mean something like: There was a lot of equipment in the garage, you could have picked up any tools you needed. (I guess, 'a lot of equipment' is a singular'. I think you used the plural verb conjugation.) Selma hasn't seen the movie yet, and neither have I. (in English the 'I' is supposed to be capitalized, but some people don't do this when typing informally.) One other thing: 'garage' is one of those words that is different in US and English pronounciation. We Americans say 'gu-rage', the English say something like 'gaerige'. That's as best as I can describe it. And that could also just be regional accents. I don't know how the Scots, the Aussies, and the Indians and Pakistanis and Ghanians and all the others pronounce it.

"There were alot of equipment in the garage,you could have picked up any tools you needed." Error : A lot of does not go well with equipment. You can change the sentence thus : " There were lots of equipments in the garage ...." "There were many equipments ...." See this website for general rules about "a lot of" http://esl.about.com/od/grammarintermediate/a/cm_lot.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Salma has not seen the movie yet,and neither i have" Error : The last part should be "have I" "Salma has not seen the movie yet and neither have I" "Neither has Salma seen the movie nor have I" Salma has not yet seen the movie and neither have I"

A lot was right in the exam but i wrote it quickly so its my mistake .a lot of equipment that was the sentence in the exam and i have to find the mistake. There was for things underlineded which was (were,in ,could have picked up, needed) so i have to choose one...

Thanks alot for all of u .this was part of my grammer exam today ,and i wanted to make sure that i was right ..