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My head were vs My head was

The correct phrase is "my head was." In English, we use the singular form of the verb "was" with the singular subject "my head." The phrase "my head were" is incorrect because it uses the plural form of the verb with a singular subject.

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My head were

This phrase is incorrect in English. The verb "were" is plural and does not match the singular subject "my head."

The correct phrase should be "my head was" to match the singular subject "my head."
  • It's as if my head were full of clogged-up pipes.
  • It's as if my head were trapped in the pajamas of a sultan.
  • Bullets whizzing by my head were visual enough.
  • I was coming back and all the grass and stones in my head were very loud.
  • And yet, if my head were to win him a castle in spain, I think he would cut it off.
  • Madam, if I ever had such a thought, then I wish my head were cut off.
  • And I found out the images that I had in my head weren't like real life.
  • I realised my head and my heart were saying two different things.
  • I had it in my head you weren't in the business of harassing growers and sellers of herbal relief.
  • When I took off my head scarf there were a lot of reactions... shock, interest.
  • And I had it in my head that we were going to get married, have kids, the whole shebang.
  • My neck is a little stiff from holding my head back when you were shampooing my hair.
  • Those heads you saw in the chest were my heads, my brothers.
  • I heard all of you - your thoughts inside my head - as if they were my thoughts.
  • Were my head to fly from my shoulders I would not lie still!
  • There were a lot of heads, but none of those heads were my friends'... heads.
  • 'Were my head to fly from my shoulders, I would not lie still! '
  • Every once in a while, I get this thing in the back of my head saying, what were you thinking?
  • One perhaps you would divine absent my words, were head not forever steeped in wine.
  • That number's engraved into my head forever.

My head was

This phrase is correct in English. It uses the singular form of the verb "was" to match the singular subject "my head."

Use this phrase when referring to something that happened to your head in the past.

Examples:

  • My head was hurting after the accident.
  • I realized my head was spinning from all the excitement.
  • My head was cut open across the front, lifted back, exposing the skull underneath.
  • So that voice in my head was the beginning.
  • My head was resting on my mother's lap as she cleaned my ears.
  • My head was too full of noise, too full of orange trees and law memos I could not write and mass murders I knew I would be responsible for.
  • My head was full of velocities and fuel calculations and a million different -
  • My head was on the floor and I'm trying to hit the mic and I'm going
  • Thank you, because my head was turned around...
  • When I was a baby, my head was so big scientists did experiments on me.
  • So from that day on, I was an ordinary kid walking around on dry land, but my head was down there, underwater.
  • Did you not hear where my head was?
  • My head - my head was in a dark place.
  • My head was full of useless knowledge.
  • My head was putty the next day.
  • My head was just spinning for a second.
  • My head was a free ticket out of here.
  • My head was clearing, a little.
  • My head was a free ticket out of here.
  • My head was going crazy. I didn't know what to do. I'm a coward for using those as excuses.
  • My head was filled with millions of thoughts.
  • My head was throbbing, but it wasn't just from lack of hydration.

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