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Melanie Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Has, Have---need help

-The tomatoes have grown quickly this year.

-The lettuce has grown quickly too.

Why do one use HAVE and the other one use HAS

-The new supermarket has everything.
-Mr. and Mrs Smith and their son have gone to Sweden for the week.

i don't know when to use have or has.
can somebody help me out.

Thank you
  

Top answer

'has' is singular. The subject is 1 thing. 'have' is plural.

  • 'has' is singular.
  • The subject is 1 thing.
  • 'have' is plural.
  • The subject is 2, 3, 4...
  • things.
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'has' is singular. The subject is 1 thing.
'have' is plural. The subject is 2, 3, 4... things.

The supermarkets have everything.

Their son has gone to Sweden for the week.

Hope this helps...!
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Hi Melaine!
Although i am learning english as a second language, i will try to explain your problem.
Well your problem is related to "Subject-verb agreement". In every sentence subject and verb should agree with each other. Remember that Have is a plural auxiliary verb and Has is singular. So whenever there is a plural subject you have to use "have" and for singluar subject "has" should
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-I have just realised that he wants what we have.
-I have just realised that he wants what we have got.

What do you think, is that possible?
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This is a big help. Thank you so much Atesttaker and everyone else who had helped me.
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yes maj - they are both possible

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