13 авг. 2022 г. · In UK English, collective nouns are plural so we use 'are' with them. So is that the case with committee too? Because lots of people make 1 committee?

11 апр. 2017 г. · American English almost always conceptualizes collective nouns like committee as singular (but see below). UK English is more flexible. For ...

5 июн. 2015 г. · In this sentence, the collective noun committee uses the singular verb meets. However, given another context:"Bob meets," it would appear ...

19 авг. 2023 г. · However, if you say "a committee" rather than "the committee", it must act as a singular noun. Weird, isn't it. Upvote 0. Downvote

21 февр. 2021 г. · When you're referring to a collective ("the committee..."), use the singular verb ("... is finished"). When you're talking about many ...

14 июн. 2018 г. · ' Generally Americans will treat committee and other collective nouns as singular while the British will treat them as plural. Anyway, all ...

11 дек. 2012 г. · I think British usage will tend to favor plural verb in ambiguous cases like this ("the committee decide") and American usage favors singular (" ...

6 нояб. 2022 г. · Both are correct. A group noun can take either a singular or a plural verb. The support team has... (whole group) The support team have... (individuals)

17 нояб. 2020 г. · I think the singular is especially suitable for your example regardless of where you are from. "The committee was of one mind when I sat on it".

28 февр. 2022 г. · In British English a group noun can take either a singular or a plural verb. But in American English a group noun takes a singular verb.