Question

Rita and Gita have/ has been missing since yesterday
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Answer 1

Answer:

Rita and Gita have been missing since yesterday.

Explanation:

Have is used for plural. Has is used for singular. And here are two girls which means the sentence is plural, so have is the appropriate answer.

Answer 2

Rita and Gita have been missing since yesterday.

Explanation : Let's break the sentence into parts of speech.

• Here, Rita and Gita both are names and We know, name of any thing, place , person is known as Noun. so, 'Rita' and 'Gita' are noun.
• "and" is conjunction because it is connecting two nouns (i.e., Rita and Gita)
• have or has & been are helping verbs.
• missing is main verb in continuous form.
• since is preposition.
• yesterday is noun.

Here, subject is Rita and Gita.

We know when Two different proper nouns are joined by 'and', then it worked as plural.

So, subject, Rita and Gita, is plural.

We also know,

For plural subject, helping verb must be in plural form.

has ⇒ singular helping verb

have ⇒ plural helping verb.

Therefore the correct answer is ..

Rita and Gita have been missing since yesterday.

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