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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Team?

'It'll be great if our team wins/win'?
Is team used as a collective noun?
  

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The usual advice in such cases is to treat as singular if the members of the group are acting collectively, or plural if they are acting individually. This judgement is not always obvious, but here you can probably say that the team wins or loses together, so "wins" seems better.

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  • The usual advice in such cases is to treat as singular if the members of the group are acting collectively, or plural if they are acting individually.
  • This judgement is not always obvious, but here you can probably say that the team wins or loses together, so "wins" seems better.
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The usual advice in such cases is to treat as singular if the members of the group are acting collectively, or plural if they are acting individually. This judgement is not always obvious, but here you can probably say that the team wins or loses together, so "wins" seems better.
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