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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Why police "are" and coastguard "is"?

Why police "are" and coastguard "is"?
  

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Anonymous Why police "are" and coastguard "is"? It depends on whether you're thinking of the organization as a unit or as a group of individuals. uk/police-uncountable-plural-noun / Tradition has a lot to do with it.

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  • Anonymous Why police "are" and coastguard "is"?
  • It depends on whether you're thinking of the organization as a unit or as a group of individuals.
  • uk/police-uncountable-plural-noun / Tradition has a lot to do with it.
  • I've never seen what I'd call a really good answer to this question.
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Anonymous Why police "are" and coastguard "is"?
It depends on whether you're thinking of the organization as a unit or as a group of individuals.

http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/4995/when-to-treat-police
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Why police "are"
Because "police" is not used to refer to a single policeman or policewoman.

The (policeman)(policewoman)(police officer) is here.
The police are here.
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Why police "are"
Because "police" is generally not used for a single police officer.
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Anonymous Why police "are" and coastguard "is"?
English has many oddities, and this is just one of them.
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