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Rajesh jain Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Has/have

The youth of this nation has/have an immense untapped potential.

What should come in here- has or have?

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Both are grammatically possible, Rajesh; it depends on how the writer is conceiving 'youth', as a single body of a certain age, or as a large number of individuals.

— Mister Micawber

  • Both are grammatically possible, Rajesh; it depends on how the writer is conceiving 'youth', as a single body of a certain age, or as a large number of individuals.
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Both are grammatically possible, Rajesh; it depends on how the writer is conceiving 'youth', as a single body of a certain age, or as a large number of individuals.
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Could there be any case that this has is referring to potential and not youth
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No. 'Have' is not a linking verb, so there is no way that even notional concord could refer the verb to the predicative 'potential'.
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