subject verb agreement

The second is correct. I’m curious to see the preceding context, though.

Aspara GusOnly the second is correct. I’m curious to see the preceding context, though.

I thought the same. I was asked the question and I would choose the second one as well. I'm not sure what the context is.

Thanks

ku1980rose Aspara GusOnly the second is correct. I’m curious to see the preceding context, though.I thought the same. I was asked the question and I would choose the second one as well. I'm not sure what the context is.Thanks

You were given a conundrum. There is no right answer. "To be" is copulative. The subject is nominally plural, and the complement is stri

enoonIt is possible to construe "a person's feelings" as singular:

I understand what you mean. That is why I was confused and asking the question here. It almost seemed it could go either way: "is" or "are."

Either way, I advised the person to use "are."

Thanks for your help.

Why did you only quote part of the sentence? The part you omitted is a critical part of the context and should be included in the original post.
"The world holds million of things you can play with and a person's feelings is definitely not one of them."
Now all can see that "a person's feelings" is being considered as one of the millions of things.
"A person's feel

Someone has spent a lot of time studying. Nagariya, your answer is excellent, and I believe it should stand without dispute. Just one little thing though, be careful when your writing your sentences, because I know you know the correct grammar that should be used, but you have made a few careless errors.

"The world hold million of things you can p

enoonThe subject is nominally plural, and the complement is strictly singular.

Yes, but doesn’t the subject take priority over the complement? We would say We are [not *is] a team and Witnesses [not *is] are a powerful tool in the criminal justice system. I know those are semantically different cases, but I’m more interested in the

Certainly, Aspara Gus, "are" would not be wrong. It's just that the presence of "one" in the complement tends to give a singular nature to "a person's feelings" (one of the things). Sometimes in English the sense of an expression takes precedence over simple grammar rules.

If the sentence were reworded slightly, omitting "one of", then I would definitely go for "are":

Aspara Gus enoonThe subject is nominally plural, and the complement is strictly singular.Yes, but doesn’t the subject take priority over the complement? We would say We are [not *is] a team and Witnesses [not *is] are a powerful tool in the criminal justice system. I know those are semantically different cases, but I’m more interested in the formal agreement, which has to

nagariyaWhy did you only quote part of the sentence? The part you omitted is a critical part of the context and should be included in the original post.

This was a question asked to me. The person who originally asked did not give me the context. I see now that the context would be critical to the answer.