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Has any of your pies

by eccentric » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:01 am
Has any of your pies been eaten this morning?

Has any of your
Are any of your
Will any of your
Is any of your
Have any of your[/u]
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:23 am
I think it should be A , as any is singular. So, B,C,E are out and Is cant be as it sounds akward.
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by eccentric » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:37 am
Hi vivek,

I disagree slightly!!!
U rightly said B,C,D are out of context hence ruled out now the choice left is A & E
Here subject is pies and i would go with E as a choice

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by astronaut » Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:25 am
I would go with A because "any" is singular
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Re: Has any of your pies

by RC150 » Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:32 am
eccentric wrote:Has any of your pies been eaten this morning?

Has any of your
Are any of your
Will any of your
Is any of your
Have any of your[/u]
last option.here 'any ' has the meaning of 'some' and not 'anyone' so it will be 'have'
refer dictionary.com->https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/any
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by pkamoako » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:20 am
I will go with A..I feel like it is singular like anyone
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:57 am
here in the sentence Verb prefixes the subject. Read it like this.
Any of your pie has been eaten by......means surely subject is pies, but it is asking if anyone out of several pies been eaten.
I will still stick with A.....wht is OA pls tell
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Re: Has any of your pies

by duke » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:12 am
eccentric wrote:Has any of your pies been eaten this morning?

Has any of your
Are any of your
Will any of your
Is any of your
Have any of your[/u]
Plural. E should be the answer.
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Re: Has any of your pies

by olika » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:28 am
IMO it is E

The first option (A) is correct but the meaning is different.

"Has any of your pies been eaten?" means that the question asks about any one pie that could have been eaten. It implies that we expect that one should have been eaten, but we don't know which one.

"Have any of your pies (that is, some) been eaten?" implies that some pies could have been eaten. Here, as I understand, we concern more with the number of pies that has been eaten rather than with the fact that any one of the pies has been eaten.

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by vivek.kapoor83 » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:05 am
ya olika, u got it right. That is what i meant .....if any of ur pie(that means 1 pie out of n no. of pie's ) I think emphasis should be on any , not on pies.I will stil stick with A.

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by eccentric » Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:03 am
OA: E :))
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