Favorite or favorites

[hatgray]

These boots are my favorite.
These boots are my favorites.

Should I use favorite or favorites?

 

[emsr2d2]

These boots are my favorite.
These boots are my favorites.

Should I use "favorite" or "favorites"?

Use "favourites". To use the singular, you could start with "This pair of boots is ..."

(Note that I have used the BrE spelling of "favourites".)

 

[hatgray]

“These are my favorite (boots).”

Can I use the singular since I’m talking about the pair of boots impliedly?

Is it wrong to use favorite?

 

[emsr2d2]

No. If you want to use "favourite" in that way, you'd have to follow it with the word "boots", so that "favourite" is an adjective.

 

[hatgray]

I bought a pair of boots yesterday. They are my favorite/favorites.

Would this work or should I use favorites too?

Also, in one article they wrote


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/fashion/kiernan-shipka-of-mad-men.html?referer=

”Collars are my favorite.”

Why is this ok and my example wrong?

 

[GoesStation]

Also, in one article they wrote

”Collars are my favorite.”

Why is this ok and my example wrong?

A twelve-year-old girl is expressing herself. The idiom includes an unspoken word, which could be "thing".

 

[hatgray]

So in my example, there is no unspoken word that’s why it is wrong?

“Boots are practical for this weather. They are my favorite/favorties.”

Would also want to hear ms. Emsr2d2’s opinion

 

[GoesStation]

Using the expression, you could say Boots are my favorite! I'd consider the exclamation point to be a necessary part of the expression. I don't recommend that learners use this formula. It's casual usage which could easily look out of place.

 

[hatgray]

Using the expression, you could say Boots are my favorite! I'd consider the exclamation point to be a necessary part of the expression. I don't recommend that learners use this formula. It's casual usage which could easily look out of place.

Then I could say,

These boots are my favorite!

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes, but with GoesStation's caveat about this non-standard expression.

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