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Seagull Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Regarding the collective noun "committee"

Hello everyone. I have a few questions.

Regarding the following two sentences.

(A) The committee was unable to agree.
(B) The committee were unable to agree.

Q1 Are they both correct?

Q2 I've heard that (A) is preferred in modern American English. Is that right?



  

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seagull Q1 Are they both correct? Yes. seagull Q2 I've heard that (A) is preferred in modern American English.

— CalifJim

  • seagull Q1 Are they both correct?
  • Yes.
  • seagull Q2 I've heard that (A) is preferred in modern American English.
  • Is that right?
  • Yes.
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seagullQ1 Are they both correct?

Yes.

seagullQ2 I've heard that (A) is preferred in modern American English. Is that right?

Yes. American English tends (more than British English) to make the agreement between subject and verb entirely on syntactic criteria.

CJ

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