Have should be used when the subject is plural. Has when the subject is singular.
..so .. a number is singular ( even though it is a number of things .. "a number" is identifying a singular group )
this is from my wife .. who is a language teacher .. although she doesnt teach English :P
Alan wrote:
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."Google reports that the former is the more common usage: Results 1 - 10 of about 722 for "There have been a number of things". Results 1 - 10 of about 188 for "There has been a number of things". Myself, I'd use "There were a number of things". (Which is also far more popular on Google) -ajb _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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