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Zorluk: Çok zorSubject-Verb Agreement (Concord)

Which of the options correctly completes the sentence below?

"Professor Adeleke is the only one of the senior lecturers who _______ consistently argued that neither the department head nor the committee members _______ authorized to alter the approved examination syllabus."

  1. has / areCevap
  2. B
    have / is
  3. C
    has / is
  4. D
    have / are

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The option containing 'has / are' correctly completes the sentence.
The option containing 'has / are' is correct because 'the only one of...' requires a singular verb ('has') as the relative pronoun 'who' refers back to 'the only one', and 'neither... nor' requires the verb ('are') to agree with the nearest subject, 'the committee members', which is plural.

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1
Analyze the concord rule for the first blank: relative clause modification following 'the only one of'.
Although 'one of + plural noun' normally takes a plural verb in a relative clause, the modifier 'the only' isolates the singular pronoun 'one' as the true antecedent of 'who'. Therefore, a singular verb ('has') is required.
The focal structure is 'the only one', which governs singular subject-verb agreement.
2
Analyze the concord rule for the second blank: correlative conjunctions 'neither... nor'.
When subjects of different grammatical numbers are joined by 'neither... nor', the verb must agree in number with the subject closest to it. Here, the nearer subject is 'the committee members' (plural), requiring a plural verb ('are').
Proximity concord dictates that the verb matches the nearest subject element in correlative constructions.
3
Combine the results from both blanks to select the correct verb pair.
The correct verb pair is 'has / are'.
First blank requires singular 'has' and second blank requires plural 'are'.

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