Hello everyone,
Could you please tell me which sentence is correct?
One of the girls who goes out is very good.
One of the girls who go out is very good.
Thank you.
One of the girls who go out is very good.
A number of girls go out, so the plural form is used for ‘go’.
Only one is very good, so the singular form is used for ‘is’
Here’s a similar one:
One of the girls who play (plural, relating to ‘the girls’) the piano is (singular, relating to ‘one girl’) very good.
One of the girls, who goes out, is very good. (This, some American English speakers say, is acceptable since the non restrictive clause refers to ‘one of the girls’; hence the antecedent here is ‘one’).
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One of the girls who go out is very good. [color=blue]I agree.
I cannot agree with that view. The commas have been incorrectly added. They change the entire meaning of the sentence into a highly unlikely form. If that were the meaning then the speaker/writer would say in plain English - “One girl goes out. She is very good.”
“One of the girls is very good.” - here the antecedent is ‘one’
“One of the girls, who is unnamed in the document, is very good.” - here the antecedent is ‘one’ because ‘who’ refers to the singular girl. This context works with your explanation.
However:
One of the girls who … is not the same situation at all. Perhaps that is the root of your confusion.