You can still follow the guidelines of British English...
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 14/06/2010 06:35:48 PM
... and write "The family knows of this". You can use either construction in Brit English.
Essentially, the "guidelines" simply say that "the family know" is allowable, not that "the family knows" is wrong.
As Tim said, generally, Brits use semantic agreement rather than syntactic.
Essentially, the "guidelines" simply say that "the family know" is allowable, not that "the family knows" is wrong.
As Tim said, generally, Brits use semantic agreement rather than syntactic.
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British grammar
- 14/06/2010 07:15:43 AM
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Entities (like nations and companies) are considered to be in the plural in British
- 14/06/2010 07:38:05 AM
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One thing I've been wondering ... for, oh, the last five or six hours...
- 14/06/2010 08:32:56 AM
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Kind of but not really any more. But it's still different in continental Europe.
- 14/06/2010 08:36:40 AM
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Originally a billion was a million million, but we've given up on that one now. *NM*
- 14/06/2010 12:32:31 PM
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it might be an accent thing, but i think "was" sounds horrible in that context
- 14/06/2010 08:38:33 AM
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Singular nouns denoting groups can take plural verb agreement in British English.
- 14/06/2010 12:31:25 PM
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A few examples of collective nouns:
- 14/06/2010 06:32:13 PM
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You can still follow the guidelines of British English...
- 14/06/2010 06:35:48 PM
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