Soal SMA · Konsep dasar · Kesulitan 4/5
In the sentence 'The committee, after lengthy deliberation, have reached a decision,' which correction is most appropriate for formal academic writing?
- A.Change 'have' to 'has' because 'committee' is treated as a single unit.
- B.Change 'have' to 'having' to maintain parallelism.
- C.Change 'committee' to 'committees' to match 'have'.
- D.Change 'reached' to 'reaching' to avoid tense error.
Kunci jawaban & pembahasan
Jawaban: Change 'have' to 'has' because 'committee' is treated as a single unit.
In American academic English, collective nouns like 'committee' take a singular verb when acting as a unit.
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