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One in seven men in the UK ____ alone.

One in seven men in the UK ____ alone.

live
lives


Votes: 267 Comments: 3 Added: June 2004
Comments:
Krd - 4th November 2004 07:28
which one?
 
schoolman - 22nd July 2006 10:46
It seems to me that the predicate 'lives' relates to the subject 'one'. Here 'one' is the third person singular, so we have to add ending '-s' to the stem of the 'live'.
 
JJ - 11th December 2006 21:12
The one man in the subject of the sentence so the third person must be used.
 
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