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Wysteria Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Subject-Verb Agreement

I did an exercise on the net and I am confused by the answers.

1) One of the books has been missing.
2) One of the most intelligent students who score full marks is John.

Why is the answer for the second question is "score" and not "scores"? Aren't we concentrating on just one person?

Also, I am often confused by the actual usage of "none". Should I use singular verb for all sentences involving "none", or should I change according to the context in which it is used? There is a varying degree of opinion on "none"
  

Top answer

1) Among the books, only one is missing. 2) There are a lot of students who score full marks and one of them is john. Hope this helps...

— Lodos

  • 1) Among the books, only one is missing.
  • 2) There are a lot of students who score full marks and one of them is john.
  • Hope this helps...
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1) Among the books, only one is missing.

2) There are a lot of students who score full marks and one of them is john.

Hope this helps...
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kindaichi0001) One of the books has been missing.
"One of the books" is singular (it's referring to one book), so it must be "has".
kindaichi0002) One of the most intelligent students who score full marks is John.
You can look at this sentence in two ways:

[One of the most intell
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