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Subject: Re: Sunflowers
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:02:41 -0400
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Giuseppe Gazerro wrote:
> Friends,
> I'm new here so, first things first, hi to everyone.
> :)
>
> I'm an English (as a foreign language) teacher and I wanted to
> submit you a question:
> what is more correct,
> *The Sunflowers* are Van Gogh's
> or
> *The Sunflowers* is Van Gogh's?
>
> (I won't tell you what I think before reading some answers
Since you have typed "The Sunflowers" in bold and with initial
capitals, you are presumably referring to the painting. The painting
is; *The Sunflowers* is. You might also, in discussing the painting,
assert that "The sunflowers are Van Gogh's." (The vase is his
brother's.)
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