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Eagerlearner Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

has or have ?

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00What are the capital cities that have the population more than 100 millions people ?02br
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g. Three hundred / five thousand / six million /02br 01b 00BUT 02b 00 Hundreds of people / thousands of words / millions of stars 0-

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0 What are the capital cities that have 01b00a02b00 population 01b00of02b00 more than 100 01b00million02b00 people?02br
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00'have' agrees with 'cities' ( The city has / the cities have)02br
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01i01b00a02b00 population02i00 because we don't know
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0What are the capital cities that have 01font00a 02font01del00the02del00 population 01font00of 02font00more than 100 million01del00s02del00 people ? - more than one city so 01b01i00have02i02b02br
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0 Thank you, everything is clear except what you mean by that "01i01b00a02b00 population02i00 because we don't know the specific population you are talking about." ? If the number of something is unknown we should use "a" instead of "the" ? Thanks0-
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00London has a population of 10 million people02br
00The population of London is 10 million.0-
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0 Sorry, I didn't explain that very well. Articles are one of the most difficult grammar points to master. Sometimes it's better to remember set expressions.02br
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00We always say 01i01b00to have a population o02b00f 02i00not01i00 01b00to have 01u00the02u00 population of02b
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0First I think we should use 100 million instead of 100 millionS. Second I do not think you need the word "people" becasue "population" here means the number of people.02br
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00Third I have several options, can anyone make commonts to each of them? Thanks.02br
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001) What are the capital cities whose population 01font00i
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0 In this case it don't need the people but in other case, we need that quantity such as02br
00what are the countries that have an area of more than 1000 meter square.02br
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00If you take away "meter square" it would become ambiguous.02br
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0Of courser. Area in your context can be used with many units, but population in most of contexts can only mean the number of people or animals.0-
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01cite10StarrySkies12cite10What are the capital cities that have 11b10a12b10 population 11b10of12b10 more than 100 11b10million12b10 people?12blockquote
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