Learn English – Is “which there wasn’t” putting it right

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Please note that I'm not a native speaker.

Take this sentence:

Even if there would have been sufficient eggs — which there wasn’t — he would need other stuff sooner or later.

Is the wording "which there wasn't" grammatically correct and would a native speaker understand that, in fact, there were not sufficient eggs?

Best Answer

I think a native speaker would understand, but it is gramatically correct to say "which there weren't".

I think this is because you can count eggs and say that eggs "were" or "weren't". Substitute in a mass noun like milk, then you should say that milk "was" or "wasn't".

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