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Mateusz Świdniak Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Television is/are - extremely important question

Good Morning,

I have a question to a native speaker of English.

"Do you ever watch the news that television broadcast at night?"

Is this sentence correct? I used "broadcast" not "broadcasts" to emphasise that people do broadcast that news to us i do not treat television as one body. I know it might be a rare or extremely rare construction but i need to know if i am able to use this in this way.

i have already read a lot about collective nouns and so on but i still do not have an answer.
  

Top answer

I would use broadcast s .

— Philip

  • I would use broadcast s .
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I would use broadcasts.
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yes, i know that "broadcasts is more likely version, but i need to know if under certain cirtumstances I am able to use broadcast, without 's'.
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Mateusz Swidniakif under certain circumstances I am able to use broadcast, without 's'.
You mean with certain singular subjects, I suppose, because of course you can use 'broadcast' without the 's' in many circumstances.

I doubt that 'television' is a subject that would take 'broadcast' in that context, but other su
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Thanks for all answers but i need to know for sure if under certain circumstantes "television broadcast" without - s is possible. I am talking about British English.

What if i want to emphasise that "television" is "made" by people and they do broadcast that news, each of them.Does it change something?
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