Mike is right. I asked my dad, a picky-grammer person, and he agrees
that it's "has" and not "have".
Mike Cherba wrote:
Bob,
I've consulted with my grammar wizards. (Becca and My sister) and we
all agree that the correct form is "has been". I've attached the
sentence diagram we generated.
-Mike
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:41 -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
This list has some language lawyers. Here's a question about the
English language.
Which of these is grammatically correct?
"There have been a number of things."
or
"There has been a number of things."
It always been my understanding that the verb should match the number
of the subject. The subject is "a number", which is singular, so
the correct verb is "has been".
"There has been a letter."
"There has been a number."
"There has been a number of things."
Microsoft Word (runs on Linux under Crossover Office) flags "has been"
as an error but accepts "have been".
Is Bill's own word processor wrong, or am I?
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