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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

was or were

Hey!

Should it be:

'The staff were'

OR

'The staff was'

Thanks
  

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Either (and probably both) is possible-- what is the rest of the sentence?

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Either (and probably both) is possible-- what is the rest of the sentence?
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'The staff was uninterested'

It refers to the staff of a bar, of which there are several members.
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I just wanted to be sure they were not fighting among themselves. When acting as a unit, such collective nouns can be considered either singular or plural-- Americans generally use the singular; Brits the plural.
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