In British/Singapore English, collective nouns like 'committee' can take plural verbs ('the committee have decided' is acceptable). The actual error is 'were' after 'each', not 'have' after 'committee'.
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Changing to 'have been' does not fix the error. 'Each' always takes a singular verb. The correct fix is 'each of the members was', not 'have been'.
While 'the committee have decided' is acceptable in Singapore English, the sentence is not correct as written because 'each of the members were' uses a plural verb with 'each', which is grammatically wrong.
'Committee' is spelled correctly — double m, double t, double e. This is a commonly misspelled word but it is correct here.
'Nominations' is spelled correctly — nominate + ions. No spelling error here.
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