What makes the sentences below ungrammatical?
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What makes the sentences below ungrammatical?
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What makes the sentences below ungrammatical?
1) Nobody knew exactly what Ed has been doing yesterday.
2) More information on the escaped criminial have now become available.
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@lflower462
This is ungrammatical because PRESENT PERFECT forms in English are used to locate the action or process in a period UP TO NOW. The word yesterday denotes a period BEFORE NOW.
This is ungrammatical — for the very simple reason that information is SINGULAR.
Indeed there is no such word in English as the PLURAl informations.
Finite verb forms with have — including the PRESNT PERFECT — show CONCORD (aka AGREEMENT) with the SUBJECT.
The SUBJECT is not I or we or you (so-called FIRST PERSON or SECOND PERSON).
So have can only follow if the SUBJECT is PLURAL