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Margaret as well as Jane ____ here since last week. A. has been B. have been Note: I chose A. Why is A wrong? … Or is it?Sorry, I put B. (why i kept making this kind of mistakes?)I actually put B. but the solution says A is right... I thought the question tests a special usage of "as well as".... is it?
30 de mar de 2013 07:05
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This is an odd one. If the sentence was worded as "Margaret and Jane", then the correct answer would be B. However, "as well as Jane" is an auxiliary statement. Therefore, within the sense, they are NOT considered to be part of the same group, and thus you cannot exchange their names for "they" (the pronoun which would make B correct). It's a weird oddity of sentences like that that both women should be treated as individuals, and thus "has" is correct. More specifically, due to how the sentence is written, you cannot rewrite it as "Margaret and Jane have been here since last week", despite that being the case. You would instead write it as two sentences: "Margaret has been here since last week. Jane has also been here since last week." By doing this, it becomes clear that A should be chosen in this very specific instance.
30 de março de 2013
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M & J have been. They have been. 3rd person plural => have I have, you have he has, we have, you (pl) have, they have.
30 de março de 2013
Thanks! :D
10 de abril de 2013
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10 de abril de 2013
Hi Apple Tree, thanks for this comprehensive list. It is very useful =)
9 de abril de 2013
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