Most of the desk(was-were) moved for testing.

was

Explanation:

The desk is singular... you need a singular verb for this sentence.

wasExplanation:

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

- the mistakes that have been done in the past will repeat themselves

- you will trust all the wrong people