Learn English – Is ” Are there the person who have a doller?” grammatically incorrect

grammaticality

A person said " Are there the person who have a doller?" would be grammatically incorrect. Is this true?

Best Answer

I assume that you are speaking to a group of people and asking if anyone is willing to lend you a dollar. If that is the case, the sentence is both ungrammatical and unidiomatic.

Grammatically, there are three errors and one mis-spelling.

  • The singular person calls for a singular verb at the beginning: Is there...
  • The same noun also calls for a singular verb in the relative clause which modifies it: ...who has...
  • Since you are not speaking of a particular person but asking whether any of a number of people present has what you want, you should use the indefinite article: Is there a person...
  • Dollar, not doller

In any case, we don't ask this question this way. We say

Does anybody have a dollar? OR
Does someone have a dollar?

In this case, the inflection for person and number lies on the auxiliary do, and have is the infinitive form which do requires.

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