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(There's a wealth of articles online about the different spellings of the same words but I want to observe something about collective nouns.)
I was taught that collective nouns take singular verbs and to be sure, non-scientific observations of same by American writers reveal this to be the case nearly all of the time.
UK scholars say it depends on the context but, non-scientific observations of work from UK writers reveal that they use plural verbs the overwhelming majority of the time.
Agree? Disagree?
I was taught that collective nouns take singular verbs and to be sure, non-scientific observations of same by American writers reveal this to be the case nearly all of the time.
UK scholars say it depends on the context but, non-scientific observations of work from UK writers reveal that they use plural verbs the overwhelming majority of the time.
Agree? Disagree?