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Mon 3 Jul, 2017 08:27 am
India is the only country to _________ experimented with the electronic voting machine on a vast scale?
here correct ans is "have" but why "has" is wrong?
india is a singular verb so it should take "has"?
1. India is a (proper) noun, not a verb.
2. 'To have' in expressions of this type is called the 'perfect infinitive'. It can have the same kind of meaning as perfect or past tenses.
I am glad to have found my soul mate.
She was sorry to have missed the show.
I hope to have finished the job by next Monday.
She seems to have quit the job.
My brother was one of the few people to have seen the car crash.
I has to agree with Centrox you dig yo!
@centrox,
Clarification: 'To have'
followed by a past participle in expressions of this type is called the 'perfect infinitive'.
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