Conatus
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- Oct 6, 2013
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- Portuguese
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- Brazil
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- Brazil
Hi teachers and colleagues!
I've just de-recorded this phrase out of a podcast audio file:
"When an individual have a unique idea or arise at a unique solution to a problem, it is said that they have thought 'out of the box'”.
Then I looked up for "an individual has" vs. "an individual have" at Google Book Ngram:
Google Ngram Viewer
And I've notice that there are millions of results to "an individual have" on Google Search:
https://www.google.com.br/#q="an+individual+have"
In the above phrase, is the verb conjugated in the 3rd. person plural form -- although "individual" is necessarily just one person -- for a question of parallelism with "they" used in place of "he or she"?
If so, I'd be wondering/I'd wonder [?] whether one could make the same phrase in the following form:
"When an individual has a unique idea or arises at a unique solution to a problem, it is said that he or she has thought 'out of the box'”.
I've just de-recorded this phrase out of a podcast audio file:
"When an individual have a unique idea or arise at a unique solution to a problem, it is said that they have thought 'out of the box'”.
Then I looked up for "an individual has" vs. "an individual have" at Google Book Ngram:
Google Ngram Viewer
And I've notice that there are millions of results to "an individual have" on Google Search:
https://www.google.com.br/#q="an+individual+have"
In the above phrase, is the verb conjugated in the 3rd. person plural form -- although "individual" is necessarily just one person -- for a question of parallelism with "they" used in place of "he or she"?
If so, I'd be wondering/I'd wonder [?] whether one could make the same phrase in the following form:
"When an individual has a unique idea or arises at a unique solution to a problem, it is said that he or she has thought 'out of the box'”.