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Interestingly, I'm one of the few football fans who doesn't actually like champagne.
Shouldn't we say " Interestingly, I'm one of the few football fans who don't actually like champagne"
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I'm one of the few football fans who doesn't / don't actually like champagne . Yes, we should. The verb is governed by plural "fans", not singular "one", so plural "don't" is strictly speaking correct.
- I'm one of the few football fans who doesn't / don't actually like champagne .
- Yes, we should.
- The verb is governed by plural "fans", not singular "one", so plural "don't" is strictly speaking correct.
- The logical interpretation is that there is a set of a few football fans who don't like champagne, and I'm a member of this set.
- Note that you will encounter an examples like this that have singular override, "doesn't".
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I'm one of the few football fans who doesn't / don't actually like champagne.
Yes, we should. The verb is governed by plural "fans", not singular "one", so plural "don't" is strictly speaking correct.
The logical interpretation is that there is a set of a few football fans who don't like champagne, and I'm a member of this set.
Note that you will encounter an examples
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