{"id":3632,"date":"2022-05-21T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T06:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2022-05-21T06:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T06:44:47","slug":"grammar-rule-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/grammar-rule-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Rule 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Treat\u00a0collective nouns\u00a0(e.g. committee, company, board of directors) as singular OR plural. In BrE a collective noun is usually treated as plural, needing a plural verb and pronoun. In AmE a collective noun is often treated as singular, needing a singular verb and pronoun.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>The committee&nbsp;<strong>are<\/strong>&nbsp;having sandwiches for lunch. Then&nbsp;<strong>they<\/strong>&nbsp;will go to London. (typically BrE)<\/em><\/li><li><em>The BBC&nbsp;<strong>have<\/strong>&nbsp;changed&nbsp;<strong>their<\/strong>&nbsp;logo. (typically BrE)<\/em><\/li><li><em>My family&nbsp;<strong>likes<\/strong>&nbsp;going to the zoo. (typically AmE)<\/em><\/li><li><em>CNN&nbsp;<strong>has<\/strong>&nbsp;changed&nbsp;<strong>its<\/strong>&nbsp;logo. (typically AmE)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treat\u00a0collective nouns\u00a0(e.g. committee, company, board of directors) as singular OR plural. In BrE a collective noun is usually treated as plural, needing a plural verb and pronoun. In AmE a collective noun is often treated as singular, needing a singular verb and pronoun. The committee&nbsp;are&nbsp;having sandwiches for lunch. Then&nbsp;they&nbsp;will go to London. (typically BrE) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}