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NDA 2019 GAT · English · Spotting Errors · medium

(a) The committee have submitted (b) its report to the chairman (c) before the deadline expired.

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Find the part of the sentence that has an error. If there is none, choose 'No error'.
(a) The committee have submitted
(b) its report to the chairman
(c) before the deadline expired.
  1. A. (a)
  2. B. (b)
  3. C. (c)
  4. D. No error
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Answer: (A) (a)

The committee is treated as a single body, as the pronoun 'its' in part (b) shows, so the verb must be singular: 'has submitted'. Using 'have' with 'its' mixes plural and singular.
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