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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

"have" or "has" in this sentence?

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00Which one is the correct formulation:02br
00a. Evanston is one of 800 cities that has signed the Mayors' Agreement.02br
00b. Evanston is one of 800 cities that have signed the Mayors' Agreement.02br
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00Thanks for any help!02br
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0 Since the antecedent (cities) is plural, 01i 00have02i 00must be used. This is a universal problem, by the way. It occurs in languages that have absolutely nothing to with English.

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  • 0 Since the antecedent (cities) is plural, 01i 00have02i 00must be used.
  • This is a universal problem, by the way.
  • It occurs in languages that have absolutely nothing to with English.
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0 Since the antecedent (cities) is plural, 01i00have02i00must be used. This is a universal problem, by the way. It occurs in languages that have absolutely nothing to with English. A similar mistake is very common in my native language, for example.05002br
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0 I've always thought both were possible, depending on what you are focusing on, but I've also always thought the singular might be much more common. Well, I was curious, so I just tried to type 01i01b00"one of those people who" site:www.usatoday.com02b02i00 on Google, and almost all verbs that follow are indeed singular, when they are not in the past. I wou
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