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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
No, it doesn't actually if you read the poster at the link. It says "which of these people" which I think could be either singular or plural depending on if you could only choose one or more than one. (unless it's been changed)
Unless I'm missing something, there's no reason why one would assume only one of the group pictured doesn't deserve health care, rather than two or three.
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"Which" is a relative pronoun in the sentence. What is "which" referring to? It is referring to an understood "one" because there is no other useable noun in the sentence - it can't refer to a noun within a prepositional phrase (i.e. "of these people"). "One" is singular, therefore, the verb has to be singular. If the sentence said "Which people don't deserve health care?" the verb "don't" would be appropriate, because "which" would be referring to "people" which is plural.
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