MGMAT SC Doubt

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MGMAT SC Doubt

by abby17 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:52 pm
Hi I started reading reading MGMAT SC and I'm stuck with a question.

Which one is correct and why

1. Does everyone has their book?
2. Does everyone has his book?
3. Does everyone have his book?
4. Does everyone have their book?
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by suchit.pandey » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:22 pm
i think the 2nd sentence is the best..


does everyone has his book??
or
does everyone has the book?

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by avik.ch » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:32 pm
GMAT dont test interrogative sentence - I couldn't find any in OG.

"Everyone" is singular. But here the subject-verb issue will only be applicable for "does" and not for "has/have" - "has" will be in its base form perfect aspect : have. So 3 is the correct one.

Consider these sentence to see how verb tense and subject-verb agreement take its form.

She might have been there.... - its not "has" here, always the first form of the verb represent tenses and signifies S-V agreement - here it is "might" - conditional past perfect tense

She has been there.... - here "has" is the first verb and hence take the tense and the S-V agreement. - present perfect.

All other verbs other than the first tense, will be in its plural base form.

This is how this works - You can convert this sentence to apply the above rules,

Everyone does has/have .... - so "does" take the S-V agreement and the tense and not has/have,which is in its base form. But please note, we generally don't write this type of sentence - but its not grammatically wrong.

Hope this helps !!

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by abby17 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:51 pm
Thanks avik!
3rd is indeed the correct answer.
Thanks again for the wonderful explanation.

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by ArunangsuSahu » Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:35 pm
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