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It is them who have to answer. vs It is them who has to answer.

The correct phrase is "it is them who have to answer." The verb "have" should agree with the plural subject "them." The incorrect phrase "it is them who has to answer." uses the incorrect singular form of the verb.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 658 views

It is them who have to answer.

This phrase is correct. The verb "have" agrees with the plural subject "them."

This phrase is used to emphasize that a particular group of people are the ones who need to provide an answer.
  • You don't have to answer.
  • These are questions that we still have to answer.
  • She doesn't have to answer.
  • All right, you don't have to answer.
  • Alison, you do not have to answer.
  • Amelia, you don't have to answer.
  • That may be, but you still have to answer.
  • That is the sort of question we have to answer.
  • I wish I didn't always have to answer.
  • I wish I didn't always have to answer.
  • You don't have to answer.
  • Excuse me... which helps keeps my period from becoming a question I don't want to have to answer.
  • It's just... you don't have to answer.
  • You don't have to answer. It's your right.
  • Maria Ostrov made us look weak and feckless, and now we have to answer.
  • Now, you don't have to answer.
  • I must also insist that Parliament be kept informed of developments in this and other areas, as it is MEPs who have to answer to their citizens when things start to go wrong at Europe's airports.
  • No, it is not compulsory to answer.
  • I have to answer my citizens about what service this is giving them, and I still, after the lengthy debates on these reports, struggle to come up with an answer.
  • All right, I have a question for you, which you do not have to answer.

It is them who has to answer.

This phrase is incorrect. The verb "has" does not agree with the plural subject "them."

  • I'm the one who has to answer to the client.
  • As Mr Poettering has just demonstrated by naming dates, it is in no way something for which this Commission has to answer.
  • The language in which the user has to answer.
  • Pilar just doesn't disappear and no one has to answer.
  • Actually, she does, but nobody has to answer.
  • Pilar just doesn't disappear and no one has to answer.
  • It is heated because it has to answer two important questions.
  • No, it is not compulsory to answer.
  • It is basically one of the Commission's preferred phrases when it has to answer difficult questions.
  • That's a hard question to answer.
  • Questions somebody still refuses to answer.
  • The Council was sent a schedule, a questionnaire, which it is in effect refusing to answer.
  • It is curious that you persist in asking me questions... which you are the most suitably situated to answer.
  • I understood her differently, Mr Pronk, but in any case it is not for me to answer.
  • I will tell you frankly that it is a bit difficult for me to answer.
  • Mr Mitchell's question is, of course, very relevant to the present situation, and it is one that I am very happy to answer.
  • He never has to answer that.
  • Tommy has to answer certain questionnaires.
  • Now he has to answer for what happened.
  • Helene, someone has to answer for the putsch.

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