(1) Mr. Sheffield sent for the children as soon as he returned from the trip. (2) Mable put her head out from the kitchen door and hollered as loud as she could, “BRIDGETTE, IAN, COME OVER HERE!”

(3) Both heard the urgency in Mable’s voice and was a little frightened. (4) They hurriedly climbed down the rope ladder, dangling from the treehouse where they had spent a good part of the day, making plans for the weekend trip to their favorite water park.

What change should be made in sentence 3?
A Insert a comma after voice
B Change heard to herd
C Change Mable’s to Mables'
D Change was to were

The change that should be made in sentence 3 is to change "was" to "were".