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Clarencetsang Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Agreement

Should I say: My favourite food is apples because "they are" delicious, or My favourite food is apples because "it is" delicious. Should the pronoun refer to "My favourite food" or "apples"?
  

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The nearest noun is apples , therefore they are is right. CB

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The nearest noun is apples, therefore they are is right.

CB
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CB, sorry, but I have to disagree here.

The sentence "My favorite food is apples" has "My favorite food" as the subject, and that's what drives the verb. My favorite food IS...

There was a thread about this recently - claiming native speakers would say "My favorite food are bananas" which all 3 or 4 native speakers who responded (though all were from the US) soundly refuted.
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Hi,

GG, that's not what CB wrote, please read again
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Grammar GeekThe sentence "My favorite food is apples" has "My favorite food" as the subject, and that's what drives the verb. My favorite food IS...
Hi GG

I agree with you completely. I never said it should be My favorite food are.

CB
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The original poster asked about the question "My favorite food is apples."

I was afraid the original poster could have gotten the impression that in the original sentence, "are" is the correct verb - and cearly it is not. Given that there was disagreement about this quite recently, I thought it was a continuation of that thread.

Absolutley, "they are."

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