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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Should this take a plural verb?

Is this wrong?

Our walls is your wall.

I'm referring to wall as in Facebook's wall. Should it have been "are" instead of "is". I can't get over it. It doesn't sound right to me if I use "are".
  

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I know absolutely nothing about the walls in Facebook but I do know that walls is jars in my ears. CB

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  • I know absolutely nothing about the walls in Facebook but I do know that walls is jars in my ears.
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I know absolutely nothing about the walls in Facebook but I do know that walls is jars in my ears.

CB
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And I actually had to search for the meaning of "jars" to know if this sounds right to you or not (lol). Anyways, I guess there is still no final answer to this. A comparison would probably shed more light but I still can't get over it.

Our dreams is also your dream. (This is correct, right?... arrr... I am really confused.)
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AnonymousIs this wrong?Our walls is your wall.
It is. You want Our walls are your wall.

The first noun phrase (our walls) is the subject of the sentence. The verb is supposed to agree with the subject in number (plural) (are).

That's not very difficult, is it?

CJ
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Okay, "are" it is.

I know it's not supposed to be difficult but I was thinking if this is one of those exception to the rule because my instincts really never thought of "are" when I wrote the statement. I think the inconsistency on the state of the subject and object is what confused me.

Anyways, thanks!
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I'd like to correct that: exceptions to the rule
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AnonymousI think the inconsistency on the state of the subject and object is what confused me.
Yes. Very often people think that the noun phrase after "is" or "are" is an object, but it isn't. What you have is called an equative sentence, where you're saying that something IS something else. It all works fine if the two things are both singular or if the tw
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Super thanks for pointing that out. I'm definitely getting more and more reckless with proper English as the years go by.
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