Grammar Error 📌
My NAMES ARE Atiku Bola Obi. ❌
My NAME IS Atiku Bola Obi. ✔️
Reasons 👇🏿
• The rule in stating your name either orally or in writing is that it should be in the format of your FIRST name, MIDDLE name, and LAST name.
• Your LAST NAME is your SURNAME which is your FAMILY NAME; your MIDDLE NAME is the name that comes between your FIRST NAME and LAST NAME. In other words, it is your OTHER NAME. While your FIRST NAME is the first of the names given to you at BIRTH.
NOTE THESE👇🏿✍🏿
1. “MY NAME IS” is singular while “MY NAMES ARE” is plural.
When stating your name, you’re talking about ONE PERSON which is YOU. 🤔
Therefore, you must use a SINGULAR VERB ‘is’ to introduce yourself as opposed to a PLURAL VERB ‘are’.
2. “MY NAMES ARE” is wrong because the verb ‘are’ is conjugated for a PLURAL noun phrase, whereas the noun phrase is SINGULAR. 🤔
Thus, it will be only correct to use 'MY NAMES ARE’ in the context of saying ‘My names are Atiku, Bola, Obi.’
👆🏿That means you have three different names in different context and as such it is totally UNACCEPTABLE to introduce yourself in that manner. 😳
3. No matter how long your FIRST, MIDDLE, and LAST name is, it is still A NAME and ‘IS’ is the right verb for stating A NAME. 🤔
Thus, you don’t say because my name is too long, I will pluralize it by using “MY NAMES ARE” as opposed to “MY NAME IS”. 😂
Using “MY NAMES ARE” is very wrong in English language and totally UNACCEPTABLE. 😊
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