Omar Ahmed Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

A perplexing sentence

Interestingly, I'm one of the few football fans who doesn't actually like champagne.

Shouldn't we say " Interestingly, I'm one of the few football fans who don't actually like champagne"
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I'm one of the few football fans who doesn't / don't actually like champagne . Yes, we should. The verb is governed by plural "fans", not singular "one", so plural "don't" is strictly speaking correct.

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I'm one of the few football fans who doesn't / don't actually like champagne.

Yes, we should. The verb is governed by plural "fans", not singular "one", so plural "don't" is strictly speaking correct.

The logical interpretation is that there is a set of a few football fans who don't like champagne, and I'm a member of this set.

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