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Bzilla Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Have/Has
I'm confused about this one and any help would be greatly appreciated!
StartFragment>On the one hand, my years of experience producing electronic music for public and private spaces, combined with the research I did for my M.A. thesis on Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, has/have laid the groundwork for questions I’d like to explore further regarding authorship, subjectivity and potential alternatives of personal spectatorship.
StartFragment>On the one hand, my years of experience producing electronic music for public and private spaces, combined with the research I did for my M.A. thesis on Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, has/have laid the groundwork for questions I’d like to explore further regarding authorship, subjectivity and potential alternatives of personal spectatorship.
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Welcome to the Forums, Bzilla. I think you will find this a great spot for questions you may have. I think the sentence you have provided is too complicated.
- Welcome to the Forums, Bzilla.
- I think you will find this a great spot for questions you may have.
- I think the sentence you have provided is too complicated.
- Try revising it by replacing "combined with" with a simple "and".
- That will make your sentence have a compound subject which requires the plural form of the verb (have).
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Welcome to the Forums, Bzilla. I think you will find this a great spot for questions you may have.
I think the sentence you have provided is too complicated. Try revising it by replacing "combined with" with a simple "and". That will make your sentence have a compound subject which requires the plural form of the verb (have).
I think the sentence you have provided is too complicated. Try revising it by replacing "combined with" with a simple "and". That will make your sentence have a compound subject which requires the plural form of the verb (have).
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Yes, simple is usually better! Many thanks--my head doesn't feel so broken now!
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