7. Choose the correct sentence. *
a) One of my friend is a teacher.
b) One of my friends is a teacher.
c) One of my friends are teacher.
d) One of my friends are teachers
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One of my friends is a teacher.
- Here the main subject is a particular single person from group of multiple people.
- As mentioned before, there are multiple people (or,friends) in the whole group, so the usage of "are" is appropriate in this case.
- And, the teacher is that one single friend who is a single person. That's why, usage of "is" is appropriate in this case.
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Correct Sentence:
One of my friends is a teacher.
- Among the given options, grammatically " One of my friends is a teacher" is the correct statement.
- In subject-verb agreement, a singular subject takes a single verb whereas a plural verb takes a plural verb.
- Correct: one of my friends ✅
- wrong: one of my friend. ❌
- Among all of your friends only one single person is a teacher, so "One of my friends is a teacher" is correct.
- In the given sentence, "one" is a subject then we should choose "is" for the verb.
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