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Agreement: Verb with Collective
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Collective nouns refer to groups: army, audience,
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band, chorus, class, clergy, club, committee,
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community, council, couple, crew, crowd, faculty,
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family, flock, fruit, gang, government, group, herd, jury,
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league, membership, mass, orchestra, pack, platoon,
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police, press, public, quartet, squad, staff, swarm,
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team, troop, varsity, etc.
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A collective noun may take either a singular or
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plural verb depending on how the noun is used. If a
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collective noun is used to refer to a group as a whole,
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it will take a singular verb. If it refers to the members of
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a group, a plural verb is used.
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Singular sense
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: The audience was restless.
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Plural sense
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: The committee have been arguing among
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themselves.
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