i mean this is probably totally pointless but no one has been able to give me a direct answer. in the song low the line "all you ever wanted is love". is this grammatically correct i mean i have gotten used to saying this but one of my friends said it should be was instead of is? so which is it?

I'm no grammar cop, but if you try flipping the words as "Love is all you ever wanted", it starts to make more sense. In fact, the word 'have' may be left out, so if we throw that in there, it's now "Love is all you have ever wanted". Now it's Present Perfect or whatever.

 

Like I said, I'm no teacher or grammar professional, but I think it's okay as is. If it's wrong, then so is Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence with "All I ever wanted, all I ever needed is here in my arms".

Sounds okay to me.

hmm yeah..idk...i thought it might be something weird like the present perfect..that made me think of my spanish class..

The point is irrelevant because the lyric is, in fact, "all you ever wanted was love...."

no it isn't..in it is "is" not "was"...listen to the song my friend.. or i could be wrong..i do misheard things all time.haha

well my question still stands..could all you ever wanted is love be grammatically correct as well..i mean i wasn't looking for a correction on the lyrics..

I always thought that it was "...wanted was love" *checks*

 

:edit: yep, definitely "was".

ok now that we all realized it was "was"..could it be grammattically correct to say "all i ever wanted is love"

Since 'wanted' is sort of past tense and 'is' is (bill clinton FTW) present, than probably not. I'm no expert but I think the proper is either "All I want is love" or "All I wanted was love"

yeah i thought of wanted as well but hmm i guess i will ask my english teacher. but he hates coldplay

The example of Enjoy The Silence given by Corkus I am really not sure about but I'm leaning towards isn't, "all I ever wanted is love" definitely isn't. "Is" = present tense and "wanted" = past tense, you can't have two differing tenses in a statement referring to one subject like that. If that makes sense.

Checking out Coldplay.com's discography, it seems the official lyrics do indeed use "was". Huh. Been singing it a little wrong all this time then. Thanks for the unintended eye-opener, everyone! :laugh3:

It's obviously a "was". Why on earth would they intentionally use incorrect grammar to get the same point across?

i mean this is probably totally pointless but no one has been able to give me a direct answer. in the song low the line "all you ever wanted is love". is this grammatically correct i mean i have gotten used to saying this but one of my friends said it should be was instead of is? so which is it?

 

 

as a teacher I would have to say that it would have to be was because he says the word wanted which signifies past tense...........

hah i like how everyone can't get over the fact that i have accepted i was wrong..but i asked a couple of other of teachers and they say it has to be "was"..and 2732 i never said they purposely did anything so idk what you are talking about...

Don't you want to see it come through?

 

"All you ever wanted WAS love...but you never looked hard enough. Its never going to give itself up!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!

"All you ever wanted WAS love...but you never looked hard enough. Its never going to give itself up!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!

 

All You Ever Want IS Love

 

All You ever Wanted was Love

 

It all depends on the tense of want.

The point is irrelevant because the lyric is, in fact, "all you ever wanted was love...."

 

This.

haha again.there really was no point to this? why does everyone want to reiterate this. i mean i admitted i was wrong...and frankly i never cared about the meaning of this song. i already know what it means well to me at least..i just wanted to know if that was grammatically correct and it wasn't...