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chinagary
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 Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:36 pm Post subject: have passed or has passed? |
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I have a question. The text book I use has a sentence,"Several years have passed since the traffic accident, and he still can't shake away the guilty feeling."
Shouldn't we say, "Several years has passed ..."?
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SimpleEnglishBlogger
Joined: 01 Feb 2011
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Location: Japan
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Ask yourself, "what has passed?" The answer is "several years". Years is plural so we use "have passed". If we were to use a pronoun in place of the subject, we would use "they".
I have passed.
You have...
He has...
We have...
You have...
They have...
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