Saturday, January 25, 2014

grammaticality - Ending a sentence with 'has'




In this text, is it correct to use the word 'has' at the very end of the last sentence?




A true student would give everything he has and owns to his guru. It doesn’t matter what value it holds, but it has to be everything the student has.



Answer



Yes, there's nothing wrong with it. Has here means something like owns or possesses and its direct object is the everything just before it. You can end a sentence with a verb that takes an object before it, even in formal writing, and it often (as in this case) sounds very natural.


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