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Guest Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

That annoying 's'

0 Which is correct: 02br
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00"My team looks forward to..." 02br
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00or 02br
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00"My team look forward to..." 02br
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00Instinctively, I would choose the later. The best reason I can give for this is the connection between the personal 'my', and the two natural examples of 'I look forward', and 'He looks forward'. Using this rule, the more personal approach of 'My team' would be in the context of 'look forward'; and alternatively 'The team' should then be followed by 'looks forward'. 02br
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00I do not know how technically acurate this assumption is, though. Maybe it just sounds good. 02br
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00Thank you. 0-
  

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The first one is correct. The second one makes no sense, sorry! Leon

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  • The first one is correct.
  • The second one makes no sense, sorry!
  • Leon
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The first one is correct. The second one makes no sense, sorry!

Leon
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In British English (I cannot speak for American English) it is acceptable to treat collective nouns as plural. English grammar sometimes looks to the sense, rather than the form. Collective nouns may be felt by English speakers to be plural for the simple reason that they consist of more than one thing. Sometimes, the form of the verb will be influenced by what follows:

The committee a
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Emotion: sadt without that 's', then it isn't English you speak.

My Analyses:
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