Question

The committee ................. issued its report. Which one will come in the blankspace has or have?

Answer 1

has/have can take the answer


First,

Subject - Verb Agreement:
Commonly we use a singular verb after a singular noun and plural verb after a plural noun.

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Now let's see what is the subject?

Here, the subject given is 'Committee'

Committee means 'group of people'.
Committee is a Collective noun.

Question arises that whether committee is singular or plural ?
It depends....

(i) If the group of people referred to as a single unit, committee is used with a singular verb & singular pronoun

(ii) If the individual parts of group is the focus, Plural verbs and plural pronouns are to be used.


[Committee can have it's plural as committees when referring to more than one committee.]

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Now the reason behind my answer:

(i) has can be used due to reason that focus is on entire group.

(ii) have can be used when we refer to individual parts of group.
If you use has, it is same as :
The people in the committee has .....

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Hope it helps
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Answer 2

The committee has issued its report.

• The tense used in the above sentence is past tense, past tense is said on the basis of actions and occasions that have taken place in the past.

EXAMPLES.

• She has been dieting lately.
• He has a wonderful set book collection in his library.
• There has been some misunderstanding amongst them since Monday that kept them away from talking to each other.
• Mr. Khalid has been bankrupt and now it is getting very difficult for him to live a normal life.