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[boboy234567]

What I like are movies.


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[Marius Hancu]

No.

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Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English‎ - Page 374 (http://books.google.com/books?id=icnKIlILT4oC&pg=PA374&dq=%22what+I+like+are%22)

by Eric Partridge - 1997 - 389 pages

What, as subject, takes the singular verb, whether the complementary noun be singular or plural: thus, 'What I like is sprouts', not 'What I like are sprouts'; ...

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[OddThomas]

What is these things you are talking about, Marius?

[Bridget]

What I like are movies.


Is sentence correct?

Thank you

Yes, it is.

[Marius Hancu]

This is one of those subjects where the usage manuals are contradicting each other and really not too useful. Garner, Modern American Usage, p 828, recommends the plural.

For this particular sentence, I'm staying with Partridge.

[Eddie88]

The fused relative pronoun 'what' can be taken as plural and singular, according to the various sources I've read.

That, which I like, are movies.


That are movies.

The subject of a sentence with a copular is the subject on the left, as we analyse from a general S V DO order.

However, if the subject is a pronoun, then the subject is taken from the subject complement (this is just one way), which is plural in this case.