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Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
It's the little things that show (or shows)?
In your opinion, is one of the following two sentences grammatically incorrect?
A) It’s the little things from XXX that show the love.
B) It’s the little things like this offer form XXX that shows the love.
In Example A, we have the plural form of the verb “show,” because of the plural “little things.”
In Example B, the rationale that was used to use the singular form of the verb is that the addition of “like this offer” makes the subject single.
I disagree, and believe that the subject is the singular “it” in both cases, so in Example A, the verb should have been written as “shows.” However, I feel rather uneasy about it, and my level of confidence is low.
What say you?
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Ali Sharifi
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Dec 14, 2019 00:57: Francisco Chagas changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Dec 14, 2019 15:12: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "English" to "basic English grammar-verb/subject agreement"
Non-PRO (3): Yvonne Gallagher, Tony M, Francisco Chagas
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I follow my binding words everywhere
Native in: Persian (Farsi) 
Works in: English to Persian (Farsi), Persian (Farsi) to English, French to Persian (Farsi), and 3 more.
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