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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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COrrect use of have

Is this sentence correcr: The following students in your class have an IEP.
  

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Although some will accept it, it is a common error. “an IEP” is singular – each of the “following students” has one. ”

  • Although some will accept it, it is a common error.
  • “an IEP” is singular – each of the “following students” has one.
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Although some will accept it, it is a common error.
“an IEP” is singular – each of the “following students” has one.
So, “The following students in your class each have an IEP.”
Or, “Each of the following students in your class has an IEP.”
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Anonymous Is this sentence correcr: The following students in your class have an IEP.
What's an IEP?
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The following students in your class have IEPs.
Pax Wilpeter!
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Individual Education Plan.
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I have to disagree that it's an error to write it as originally written or that "students have IEPs" is an improvement.

It's completely understandable as is, if you know that there is a 1:1 correspondence between one student and one IEP.

That said, I certainly don't object to "...each have an IEP" -- I just don't think it's completely necessary.

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