 Re: My family is/are close
Family and some other words like team, depending upon the speaker's perspective, can be seen either as:
1. a unit (singular): The family is/was here.
2. a group of people (members of a family) especially if the family (members) are known to the speaker. Police is always plural: The police are here.
This difference might disappear and the American way (always singular) stay as the only possible usage.
Last edited by Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim; 26-Dec-2006 at 05:28.
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