Thursday, March 17, 2016
I'd like us to consider this popular idiom:
"All that glitters is not gold."
I often hear some people say:
"All that glitters are not gold."
To start with, let me emphasise that:
1. the subject of the sentence is "All", not "glitters".
2. "All" is a singular pronoun, although can serve as plural in certain contextual situations.
The idiom is always:
"All that glitters is not gold (not 'are')."
Kindly digest!
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