The phrase "a document that say" is not correct in written English.
The correct form should be "a document that says" to agree with the singular noun "document."
Example: "I need a document that says I am eligible for the scholarship."
Alternatives: "a document that states" or "a document that indicates".
"For a lot of relatives it's a document that says, 'This is what she went through, and look where she is now,' " Dr. Jones said.
Patricia Kennealy Morrison and Jim Morrison took part in a Celtic handfasting marriage ceremony in 1970 and signed a document that said they were married.
Ms. Cruz read from a document that said, "Per diem will be paid when the travel period exceeds 10 hours in the same calendar day".
I reached for the course schedule, only to realize I was about to kill something with a document that says you won't kill anything.
This week, the British government released a document that said it had evidence connecting the attacks to Mr. bin Laden's organization, Al Qaeda.
"I don't have a document that says A, B, C, D, E, Errol Flynn was a Nazi agent," he said in an interview with The New York Times the year the biography was published.
A document that said everything — that had no particular meaning, but various and expanding meanings — would say nothing; it would be not a document but a kaleidoscope or a Rorschach test.
Ekaterina Sergatskova, a Kiev-based journalist on the list, said she had been told to report to the SBU, but when she did so on Tuesday was given a document that said she was a witness in the Babchenko case.
During his effort to regain the funds, Deripaska's lawyer filed a document that said it "appears that Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have simply disappeared". The filings in the case do not indicate that the matter has been resolved.
