Which is correct: My Patient has/have cough?

2 Answers
Dec 18, 2017

"My patient has a cough"

Explanation:

I'm a native English speaker but I can't tell you why the article "a" needs to be there.

Dec 20, 2017

You should use 'has' here. See explanation.

Explanation:

The verb 'to have' has two different forms in Present Simple tense.

Form has is used when the subject is in the third person singular. It can be either a pronoun (he, she or it) or a noun describing a subject (either common patient, driver, man, etc, or proper Peter, Paris, Poland etc.).

In other persons (first and second singular and all plural forms) word have should be used.

Note: As @aielliot said article 'a' shouldbe used here, so the correct sentence is:

My patient has a cough.