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Cup cake Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Plural versus singular

Hi Everyone,

I'm wondering about the following sentence:

Mandy and Denise have similar taste in food.

Is taste mean't to be singular or plural?

I can't hear the difference between the sentence above and this one:

Mandy and Denise have similar tastes in food.

They both sound correct to me.

????

Thanks,
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Cup cake Mandy and Denise have similar taste in food. I wouldn't use this one even though it seems to me that it's correct. I'd use one of these: ...

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  • have a similar taste in food.
  • have similar tastes in food.
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Cup cakeMandy and Denise have similar taste in food.
I wouldn't use this one even though it seems to me that it's correct. I'd use one of these:

... have a similar taste in food.
... have similar tastes in food.

Those are both correct.

CJ
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I wonder if you take out the...'have similar', and just say this:

Mandy and Denise taste food.

In this sentence, it's clear it must be singular, although the sentence has a totally different meaning.

Hmmm....OK, I'll buy your answer CJ.
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