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Perfect Stranger Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

[grammar question] a band has or have...

Dear Users,

Here are two sentences from two different articles on the same topic:

1) As of now, there is no word of another studio album, though Sabbath have spoken about the possibility of one final record.

Read More: http://loudwire.com/black-sabbath-2016-final-tour/?trackback=tsmclip |

2) After months of keeping fans in suspense, Ozzy Osbourne and company have finally delivered. Black Sabbath has announced farewell tour dates for 2016.

Read More: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6685824/black-sabbath-farewell-tour-date-2016-ozzy-osbourne-bill-ward-album

As we can see, in one of them the band's name is followed by have whereas in the other it's followed by has. Could someone please explain it to me?

Thanks.
  

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It's one of those British / American English differences.

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  • It's one of those British / American English differences.
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It's one of those British / American English differences.
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Really? I thiught it had something to do wheather we consider a band as a single collective unit or not... So which one would be used in BrE and which one would be used in AmE?
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We tend to think of collective nouns as plural in BrE.
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fivejedjonWe tend to think of collective nouns as plural in BrE.
And singular in American English.
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