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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar
Someone has/have... and is/are
Someone has taken over the building and are holding, I don't know, fifty people hostage.
1. With 'someone' referring to a group of captors, would you use 'has' and 'are' here?
2. Otherwise is the sentence natural?
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anonymous Someone has taken over the building and are is holding, I don't know, fifty people hostage. As shown. The indefinite pronouns are all treated as singular.
- anonymous Someone has taken over the building and are is holding, I don't know, fifty people hostage.
- As shown.
- The indefinite pronouns are all treated as singular.
- everyone, someone, no one, everything, something, nothing CJ
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anonymousSomeone has taken over the building andareis holding, I don't know, fifty people hostage.
As shown.
The indefinite pronouns are all treated as singular.
everyone, someone, no one, everything, something, nothing
CJ
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