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Each of the Olympic athletes have been training for months, even years. vs Each of the Olympic athletes were training for months, even years.

The correct phrase is: 'each of the Olympic athletes has been training for months, even years.' The verb 'has been' agrees with the singular subject 'each.'

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Each of the Olympic athletes have been training for months, even years.

This phrase is incorrect. The verb 'have been' does not agree with the singular subject 'each.'

The correct form should use 'has been' to agree with the singular subject 'each.'
  • Dec 13, 2013 ... Each of the Olympic athletes have been training for months, even years.
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Alternatives:

  • each of the Olympic athletes has been training for months, even years.

Each of the Olympic athletes were training for months, even years.

This phrase is incorrect. The verb 'were' does not agree with the singular subject 'each.'

The correct form should use 'has been' to agree with the singular subject 'each.'
  • It would be very irresponsible if the IOC endangered the lives of the Olympic athletes by holding the games in such an unpredictable region.
  • I need not remind you that, on 5 September 1972, 11 Olympic athletes were massacred in Munich.
  • Look at the Olympic athletes who have won gold.
  • Such sanctions must go much further than the question of the Olympics, even though the Eastern Bloc countries behaved differently on the occasion of the Moscow Games.
  • Presumably we'll ban them, but then we'll have the specter of teenagers in their high schools gyms routinely out-performing the Olympic athletes.
  • It remains, therefore, unacceptable in my view that this dictatorship can count on so much tolerance and so much cooperation from the EU, but also from more or less the entire international community, even with regard to the organisation of the Olympic Games in 2008.
  • This unquestionable, I would say, erich, is the quality field of the Olympics.
  • He told us the assassins were members of the Olympic team.
  • It was part of the Olympics in Ancient Greece.
  • This will be like a kid out of the Olympics...
  • I waited outside of the Olympic for my father.
  • It also wants EU countries to clarify their position about whether to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
  • Rhodes Scholar, clerk for Chief Justice Roberts, member of the Olympic badminton team.
  • This clear infringement of the Olympic Charter is unacceptable.
  • Of course you are getting back together because of the Olympics.
  • I would like also to reflect on the imminence of the Olympic Games.
  • Ancient Greece bestowed on humankind among other things the joy of the Olympic Games.
  • I would not rule out a full boycott of the Olympics.
  • Mr President, you also mentioned the question of the Olympic Games in China.
  • Let me finally say a word on the question of the Olympic Games.

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  • each of the Olympic athletes has been training for months, even years.

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