Sunflowers

[Giuseppe Gazerro]

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
:)

Thanks in advance

[CDB]

Post by Giuseppe Gazerro
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
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.)

[Andrew Heenan]

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.)

You could also argue that "The Sunflowers are Van Gogh's", referring to the
several different paintings he produced with that name!

[CDB]

Post by Andrew Heenan

Post by CDB
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.)

You could also argue that "The Sunflowers are Van Gogh's",
referring to the several different paintings he produced with that
name!

Not to mention the one painted by my late mother, and nicely too. But
the plural-masterpiece version seems to need another "s", and maybe a
convention like quotation marks or underlining, to delimit the title.
But "the 'The Sunflowers's" looks funny; so I'd probably rephrase.

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Post by Giuseppe Gazerro
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
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
:)
Thanks in advance
--
till next time take care
Beppe
www.giuseppegazerro.com

[sayouly]

I think the answer depends on what you mean by *The Sunflowers*. If
you are talking about the painting, then

The Sunflowers is Van Gogh's.

If, however, you are talking about a bunch of "real" Sunflowers, then

The Sunflowers are Van Gogh's.

As a caveate (did I spell that correctly) If we are talking about the
painting, I think we would actually say;

"The painting *The Sunflowers* is Van Gogh's.

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Post by Giuseppe Gazerro
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
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
:)
Thanks in advance
--
till next time take care
Beppe
www.giuseppegazerro.com