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[worksmart]

Please help me with this question.

If I am being asked "What is your favorite food?"

Should I answer, "My favortie food is grape" or "my favortie food are grapes"?

And another question related to grapes. I know what sour grapes mean. But can I use sour grape without the plural to describe a person?

Thanks a million!

[mescalero]

worksmart:

"My favorite food is the grape." is correct. However, you will hear many people say, my favorite food are grapes.

And yes, you could call someone a sour grape. It means that the person is not very pleasant.

Good Luck!!!!
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[worksmart]

Thanks for your reply.

I need more clarifications.
Do you happen to know what "the" is added when saying "My favorite food is the grape"? What about non-count foods, such as pizza. If I remember correctly, I don't need to add the "the", right. So I would just say "My favorite food is pizza."

And about sour grape. Besides to decribe a person is unpleasant. Can I say "You are such a sour grape" to describe the person's denial of the desirability of something because he can not have it?