<p>1) Please give this scholarship "to whoever" in the graduating class "has done" the most "to promote" "goodwill" in the community.</p>
<p>The answer is no error. However, shouldn't it be "to whomever"? Because it is the object of the preposition, so it requires the objective form. Can someone explain this.</p>
<p>2) All of the team members, except "him", "has" anticipated "interest from" the national leagues, and now practice twice "as long".</p>
<p>The answer is "has". The book says to delete the word "has". Shouldn't it be "have". Because team members is plural, so you take a plural verb. If i'm wrong, why do we take out "has"?</p>
<p>1)
there’s a huge difference between the usage of who and whom and the usage of whoever and whomever… it is a bit confusing but it will make more sense after this example I give you.
I want to speak to whoever/whomever is responsible… the right one is “whoever” not whomever… you may think that whomever is right because it is the object of to, however, the entire clause “whoever did this” is the object. whoever here is right because it is the subject of “is responsible”.
back to the original sentence you posted. whoever here is the subject of “has done”, hence it is correct. choose between whoever and whomever based on the phrase not on “to”.
2) try to read it without either has or have… it works right? also, has is wrong because it doesn’t match with “members”.</p>
<p>For the second question the problem is subject verb agreement. The subject “members” requires the plural “have”, assuming that the tense (present perfect) is correct.</p>
<p>Is the present perfect correct? Well it could be. So can the past perfect, and even the past. The explanation in your book seems flawed.</p>
<p>It’s extremely unlikely that the actual SAT would have a writing question with two errors.</p>
<p>I do not believe, and I am almost 100% sure, that members is not the subject; therefore, ‘has’ should NOT change to have and should stay as ‘has’. Why? The subject will never appear in a prepositional phrase; therefore, the subject must be ‘ALL’ which is singular so the helping verb (has) should be singular too which it IS. Therefore, the subject verb pair is ‘All’ and ‘has anticipated’. All is indefinite and I think is singular, correct me if I am wrong</p>
<p>Disreagard my previous post:
Isnt all the subject of the sentence as the subject can never appear in a prepositional phrase. Also I guess the book is taking all as singular in this case but could it be plural? All can be either sing or plural apparently!</p>
<p>Yes, “all” is one of the indefinite pronouns which can be singular or plural. In order to identify if it is singular or plural, check to see what “all” refers to. It refers to members, which is plural.</p>