Poll: The team ___ doing well.
The team ___ doing well. |
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Votes: 450
Comments: 9
Added: November 2003
Comments:
| Tim Ratelle - 27th November 2003 20:22 |
| How many teams are there? |
| willbut - 28th November 2003 23:50 |
| One team, but a number of members. In British English we happily use singular and plural for collective nouns. 'Police' is an exception, where we always use the plural. |
| italianbrother - 26th December 2003 02:28 |
| with a singular team I'd go for the singular. |
| willbut - 28th December 2003 00:53 |
| I couldn't care. |
| saamy - 28th February 2005 09:57 |
| hey wat is the use of the questions ur displaying |
| SimonTrew - 13th September 2007 15:11 |
| It depends on whether the team (government, company) etc is being considered as a single entity or as a group. But it's important, in any one piece of writing, to decide one way or the other. |
| Leo Girard - 23rd September 2007 07:39 |
| In America teams are considered a singular; in Britain, plural. The English side are playing well against France today. Usuallt France play better. |
| tektek - 2nd October 2008 15:22 |
| i would say both "is" & "are" are correct, because it could be : The team ( as a whole) is doing well. or The team ( members) are doing well. |
| servet - 20th January 2012 19:38 |
| Fenerbahce are the champion.(team should always be used plural) |
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