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Choose the correct form: The news of the latest silicon chip breakthroughs (was/were) very exciting.

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Langgadingdongviz
It's "were". The subject there is "breakthroughs".

Sensespeakviz
I beg to disagree. The subject of the sentence is news, and though it ends in "s", this word is always treated as a singular noun. Hence, the correct answer is " was"