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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

To my surprise

To my surprise, Bangladesh have won the match against South Africa.

Is this sentence right/correct? [Also, please tell me `right' or `correct' here]

Please help me?
  

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User_gary To my surprise, Bangladesh have won the match against South Africa. Correct. If you were not expecting Bangladesh to win.

— Peaceblinkfriend

  • User_gary To my surprise, Bangladesh have won the match against South Africa.
  • Correct.
  • If you were not expecting Bangladesh to win.
  • Is this sentence right/correct?
  • [Also, please tell me `right' or `correct' here] I believe you could use both.
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User_garyTo my surprise, Bangladesh have won the match against South Africa. Correct. If you were not expecting Bangladesh to win.

Is this sentence right/correct? [Also, please tell me `right' or `correct' here] I believe you could use both. Although I prefer to use 'correct' in this case.
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I would say Bangladesh has won the match (referring to the team as aa single unit).
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I agree with you, khoff.

Best wishes,

PBF
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So, every single football team is considered as a single unit, right? And so, we have to use 'has', right?
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So, every single football team is considered as a single unit, right? And so, we have to use 'has', right?


I don't know much about soccer, but with team names in general I would say that it depends on whether the name is in the singular or plural form. In baseball, for instance, we have th
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