Grammar help

Posted by R. Berg August 29, 2002In reply to Urgent: grammar help needed posted by ESC on August 29, 2002

The only thing we overlook ARE wide open spaces.

The only thing we overlook IS wide open spaces.

Paging R. Berg. Which is correct? The grammar mavens are divided on this question. The sentence is for a proposed customer service ad with a visual pun -- a scenic overlook.

IS is correct. The noun that governs is "thing," the subject of the sentence.

So they call themselves mavens, do they? Without having read Fowler?

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