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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The two apps who answered OP's query were right. Collective nouns are singular in American English. Think about "United States," which for Americans is always followed by a singular verb despite technically being plural. [/quote] I did some research on this for a paper some time ago. Usage changed some time after the American Civil War. Before that, reference to the United States was plural. If you wanted to refer to the country in the singular, you usually called it the Union.[/quote]
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