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I saw a poster/plaque with this writing:
Wine is the answer. What was the questions?
Is it grammatically right?
My doubt is about the use of was: indeed, if someone asked me to translate in English a such sentence, I would have used the plural form were because we are talking about questions, that is plural!
If the designer of the poster intentionally wanted to use the plural questions, then were would indeed be grammatically correct, and we would be left with the following jarring phrase:
Wine is the answer. What were the questions?
However, given the obvious attempt at humour, I would assert that using the plural is in fact a typo, and that the phrase should read:
Wine is the answer. What was the question?
