By Plurals, Relative pronouns

Of course it disagrees with are because it has nothing to do with it. The subject of makes is the relative pronoun what. According to most dictionaries, Webster's among them, fruit can be used as a collective plural. If are is wrong with it, what plural verb form of to be do you suggest?CB

I agree with your analysis regarding the character of the two dictionaries. If change equal degradation, English was ruined hundreds of years ago. There are countless examples of that: the use of the auxiliary do in questions and negations, the use of s as a nearly universal plural ending, the...

Solomon_13000 wrote:Are the sentences below correct in terms of the use of preposition and so on in italic? Preposition Neither Amy nor her sisters like to do ironing every week. He is like his mother He is always like that Besides working at the restaurant, he also works at the...

Ahn wrote: Managed properly, a nuclear revival could be a good thing. But the industry and the governments keen to promote it look like repeating some of the mistakes that gave it a bad name in the first place. Is the purple part what omitted 'which is' from "The industry and the governments...

Very good! Elements ... make; element ... makesIn English there is never a distinction between a singular and a plural relative pronoun, in other words that is correct in both sentences.CB

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. After some...

Zj.frank wrote:Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes "the few"? If...

Cherrypie10 wrote:I can’t think of a better site name before so I’ve decided to name it after the two of my favorite dogs. Cherry and Pie are two of our family dogs, they're the oldest so they're the one whom I love the most.Is that correct? A semicolon keeps it from being a "run-on"...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

It would make more sense to present these in the reverse order. 1. Subject and verb agree in number (singular or plural). The girl is always boasting. CJ