<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ADKbrown: Apart from the scenery, what makes Silver Bay so special is the emotional bonds that develop here. <p>*This sentence is grammatically correct, is it not? Or should it be: "... what make Silver Bay so special are the emotional bonds that develop here."? <p>I plan to rewrite the sentence, because both sound terrible, but I can't help wondering about such things.*<hr></blockquote>Doing this from memory, since the book is in the office, but if I remember right, this is covered by the linking verb entry in Strunk & White. I can't quote the rule--something about agreement with object, I think--but the example reads, "What is wanted is a few more pairs of hands." Seems analogous to me.<p>However, I think I'd also recast and avoid it entirely! :)
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