WotanTheWanderer  +  738303 Tue, 19 May 09 11:51 PM "I hope that you, the interns, and everyone else at the New Jersey Opera Club has a great summer!" I am never sure if i should use has or have in a sitation like this since I am wisihing it to a each member of a  group iduvidualy. Shoud it be has or have? WotanTheWanderer Joined on Tue, May 19 2009 New Member 01 Verbs, Tenses, Pronouns, Countries, United States, Summer

	Mr Wordy  +  738563 Wed, 20 May 09 03:05 AM In my opinion it should be "have". It doesn't matter that your message is to each of them individually rather than the whole group collectively; the difficulty here is that "everyone else" functions as a singular, so the ear is expecting it to be followed by "has". If you said "I hope that you, the interns and the other Opera Club members have..." then there would be no question that it should be "have".   It's interesting to look at the Google Book Search results:   138 on "you and everyone else have". 100 on "you and everyone else has".   So if you feel you should use "has" because it sounds better then it seems you're in good company. Mr Wordy Joined on Tue, May 27 2008 Senior Member 2,359 Native British English speaker