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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Family are or is

My family are or is my priority.
  

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I believe that most people think of family as a collective, singular noun: is .

— Philip

  • I believe that most people think of family as a collective, singular noun: is .
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I believe that most people think of family as a collective, singular noun: is.
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As a speaker of BrE, I can use 'is' or 'are'. My personal feeling is that I use 'is' when I am thinking of my family as a concept., 'are when I am thinking of the individual members.
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Anonymous My family are or is my priority.
In American English you can always use 'is/was' for a collective subject like 'family' or 'team'.

My family is my priority.
My family is scattered all over the United States.
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The British (and occasionally some Americans) use 'are/were' when the reference is
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