So what things is your city famous for?

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: BoomerD
BTW, since none of the other grammar nazi's have mentioned it yet...

Topic Title: So what things is your city famous for?

things is a plural word...so it SHOULD read:
"So what things ARE your city famous for?"

OR, "What THING is your city famous for."

I suppose the OP's title MIGHT be acceptable somewhere down south...but not in the English speaking part of the country. 😛

if you were a true grammar nazi you'd never approve ending a sentence with a preposition

How would you rephrase it without the trailing preposition? It usually sounds awkward for conversational writing.

I used to care about this, but atforums has cured me.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: seemingly random

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: BoomerD
BTW, since none of the other grammar nazi's have mentioned it yet...

Topic Title: So what things is your city famous for?

things is a plural word...so it SHOULD read:
"So what things ARE your city famous for?"

OR, "What THING is your city famous for."

I suppose the OP's title MIGHT be acceptable somewhere down south...but not in the English speaking part of the country. 😛

if you were a true grammar nazi you'd never approve ending a sentence with a preposition

How would you rephrase it without the trailing preposition? It usually sounds awkward for conversational writing.

I used to care about this, but atforums has cured me.

For which things is your city famous?

 

[KaChow]

Where I live at now is the oldest continuously chartered town in Virginia (May 11, 1749).

 

[Circlenaut]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
The Battle of Bunker Hill, the Freedom Trail, Boston Tea Party, Harvard, birthplace of the Kennedys, sports teams that everyone else loves to hate, etc.

Adam's Birthplace, First Railroad in the US, 2 US presidents buried in the city.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Los Angeles: famous for inventing cool.

 

[Overgloc]

Birth Place of the KING OF ROCK AND ROLL
http://www.elvispresleybirthplace.com/

 

[Aquila76]

Jack Kerouac
Mickey Ward
Ed McMahon
Whistler
Industrial Revolution
Boot Mills at Arthur's

...

High on Crack Street

 

[Staple68]

steel
welfare/NDP
niagara escarpment
cfl
nhl maybe
crime
fatness

 

[geno]

Fluff.

We used to be the country's largest shoe manufacturer earlier on in the 20th century, but that's no longer our claim to fame. Now, it's all about marshmallow Fluff.