Question

Something she said about the status reports have me thinking they'll be submitted late.

Choose the best revision of the previous sentence.

a. Something she says about the status reports have me thinking they’ll be submitted late.
b. Something she said about the status reports have got me thinking they’ll be submitted late.
c. Something she said about the status reports has me thinking they’ll be submitted late.

Answer 1

c

Step-by-step explanation:

The third option is correct because the error in this sentence is one of subject-verb agreement. The subject in the sentence is ‘something’, which is singular, and so ‘has’should have been used here. The confusion arises because of the plural ‘reports’, but this is not the subject of the sentence; this word is merely a noun, being used here as the object of the preposition ábout’. The object of a preposition is never the subject of the sentence. The reports, however, become the subject of the next (dependent) clause, so the pronoun ‘they’ is used to refer to the reports.