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Aug 24 2009 4:02PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
CIO, subject-verb agreement, Business writing, Quiz
“One in three has” or “one in three have?”
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
CIO, subject-verb agreement, Business writing, Quiz
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Which is correct? One in three industrial end users currently ____ at least one deployed wireless application. a. has b. have |
Answer: a
Explanation: One is the subject of the sentence, so the correct verb is has. One industrial end user (out of three) has at least one deployed wireless application.
Writinghood offers more about tricky cases of subject-verb agreement.
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