The most important person.

[tufguy]

"Mahatma Gandhi is one of the greatest person that has ever existed."

"She is one of the most important person in my life."

Please check.

 

[tufguy]

"He is one of the people that have achieved sucess." Is it correct? It takes plural verb, right?

 

[Matthew Wai]

I found a typo and a missing article in the above post.

 

[Tdol]

"He is one of the people that have achieved sucess." Is it correct? It takes plural verb, right?

It does take a plural verb, and when you change the spelling to success, it will be correct. However, it sounds a bit odd to me as countless millions of people have been successful. I would use one of for something more exceptional.

 

[tufguy]

"He is one of the people that have achieved success." Is it correct? It takes a plural verb, right?

 

[tufguy]

It does take a plural verb, and when you change the spelling to success, it will be correct. However, it sounds a bit odd to me as countless millions of people have been successful. I would use one of for something more exceptional.

Is it correct to say "He is among the people who have achieved success?"

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think it is grammatical if the question mark is put after the closing quotation mark, but I would simply say 'He is a successful person'.

 

[ChinaDan]

I think it is grammatical if the question mark is put after the closing quotation mark, but I would simply say 'He is a successful person'.

I got called out on that. Apparently, a question mark goes inside the quotation mark.

 

[Matthew Wai]

The text in quotes below is not a question, so I think the question mark should be outside the quotation marks.

Is it correct to say "He is among the people who have achieved success?"

 

[GoesStation]

I got called out on that. Apparently, a question mark goes inside the quotation mark.

It goes inside the quotation marks when it's part of the quoted text. Otherwise it goes outside.

 

[Tdol]

In British English, we are happy to put any punctuation outside the quote if it isn't part of the text.

 

[GoesStation]

In British English, we are happy to put any punctuation outside the quote if it isn't part of the text.

That's the logical approach. American usage usually places all final punctuation within the quote. I do not follow this practice.