These are the lyrics from Same mistakes by One direction.
When it's broken, you say there's nothing to fix."
Shouldn't it be , from a grammatical perspective, "that's what's crazy"
Because crazy is not a noun (as in "I don't know what your problem is").
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"that's what crazy is" is not formally correct English for the reason that you mention, but it is acceptable in informal/casual English, meaning something like "that's the definition/meaning of 'crazy'". Thus the meaning is slightly different from that of "That's what's crazy".
- "that's what crazy is" is not formally correct English for the reason that you mention, but it is acceptable in informal/casual English, meaning something like "that's the definition/meaning of 'crazy'".
- Thus the meaning is slightly different from that of "That's what's crazy".
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"that's what crazy is" is not formally correct English for the reason that you mention, but it is acceptable in informal/casual English, meaning something like "that's the definition/meaning of 'crazy'". Thus the meaning is slightly different from that of "That's what's crazy".
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