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[Marrion]

[1] What's your favorite sports?
[2] What's your favorite sport?

Is the defference between [1] and [2]?

And here is another question.

[3] This is my sports car.

At this sentence, is "sports" "an adjective" or "a noun"?

[CP]

Usually you would say it as sentence 2, asking what sport is the person's favorite of all. If you are asking about the top two or three favorites, you might say, "What are your two or three favorite sports?" But sentence 1 as written is ungrammatical.

A little red car with the top down and a balding man driving it is a sports car, as distinct from a sedan, a pickup truck, a van, a bus, etc. "Sports" would be an adjective modifying "car."
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[Marrion]

I got it
But here is another question.

If I tell "What are your favorite sports?" to someone, is this sentence correct?


And then

[1] a clothes shop
[2] a customs officer

At these sentences, are "clothes" and "customs" used as adjectives?