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Joe2012 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Regarding the usage of "s"

Sentence: "The public don't/doesn't care what happens to this investigation"

My question/doubt: Should the word "happen" , in the above sentence, have "s" at its end ? What if the words "the public don't" is replace by "We", then also, the word "happen" would have "s" at its end ?

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'What' is always followed by a singular verb (those verbs with the suffix s) . The word public has nothing to do with the number of the verb following 'what'.

— Ivanhr

  • 'What' is always followed by a singular verb (those verbs with the suffix s) .
  • The word public has nothing to do with the number of the verb following 'what'.
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'What' is always followed by a singular verb (those verbs with the suffix s) . The word public has nothing to do with the number of the verb following 'what'.
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