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What is the difference between them? 1) Despite now being their boss, she remains good friends with her co-workers. 2) Despite now being their boss, she remains a good friend with her co-workers. Which one of them is correct? "she remains good friends with" or "she remains a good friend with"
24 août 2023 09:00
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In #1, it is the co-workers, not she, who remain as good friends. She cannot be "friends" because there is only one of her: "Her co-workers remain good friends." Notice that both nouns are plural. #2 is almost right but "with" needs to be replaced with a different preposition: "She remains a good friend for (or "to") (each of) her co-workers.
24 août 2023
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Hey :) As a fellow non-native speaker, I'm wondering if it's either "She remains good friends with her co-workers." or "She remains a good friend to her co-workers." Such a good question you asked, and I'm also interested in the correct answer 🙃
24 août 2023
I think both work, but 1. sounds more natural to me, a native speaker. I appreciate Jonathon's point about singular/vs plural, but I hear sentences like "she is still good friends with him," all the time, whereas I almost never hear "she is still a good friend with him". I think it may be an odd construction where 'friends' refers to all the parties. Or it could be just one of the technically incorrect things that has become common usage.
26 août 2023
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