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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
"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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If you're going to be a grammar nazi, it's important to be right.
The word "one" isn't present and there's no reason that the subject would need to be singular or that "one" would be understood to be present. It could just as easily by understood to be "three."
There is no clear referent for "which," which by the way is probably functioning as an interrogative pronoun rather than as a relative pronoun. Any number of people in the photo could be the "which." It doesn't have to be understood to be singular and is probably more effective as an ad if it's understood to be plural.
Again, I probably wouldn't have set it up to read like that because it was going to bug some people, but you are insisting that it's incorrect as written, and I don't think it is.
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