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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Have or has here?

Please tell me whether this sentence should be have or has and please explain your answer.

"Furthermore, the risk of the development of autoimmune syndromes concluding Sjogren's and rheumatoid arthritis (has/have) been discussed with the patient."
  

Top answer

Has . It goes with The risk . Concluding sounds odd here.

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  • Has .
  • It goes with The risk .
  • Concluding sounds odd here.
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Has. It goes with The risk.
Concluding sounds odd here.
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I am the anonymous user that posted this sentence. I think he should have said risks here, but he is talking about 2 risks, development of autoimmune syndromes concluding Sjogren's AND rheumatoid arthritis. So wouldn't one treat that as 2 risks and choose have instead of has? I also totally agree about using concluding, but I have to transcribe what he dictates and that's what he said.
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I just registered, so I just wanted to reply so I could get a notification when I get a response Emotion: wink
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Hi, Andrea. Welcome to the Forum.
As it stands The risk of the development of.... is singular, even though more than one thing is involved within the development, so it needs has.
You could make it plural by changing it to The risks of developing autoimmune syndromes, including Sjogren's and rheumatoid arthritis, have been discussed wi
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Unfortunately, I can't change it. It's a report that I typed already and QA dinged me a 1/4 point for that grammar error. I have challenged it, but I wanted to get someone else's opinion on it. I hate to find out that they were right, oh well. Thanks for your help!
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