Thursday, September 11, 2008

There Have Been A Mistake Here [sic]


‘For over 30 years, there has never been any quarrels’ (Straits Times, 2 September 2008).

Make it have, since the dummy pronoun there is itself neither singular nor plural, but takes on the number (singular/plural) of the following noun phrase (quarrels is plural).

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