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Jun 29, 2012 · If you consider a team, band, company, or whatever a single, independent entity, you’d use singular; if you think of them as being made up of individuals working under a common title, then you’d use plural forms.
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When Americans want to refer to an NFL team as an organization we use the city and when we want to refer to an NFL team as the collection of players, coaches, and fans, we use the team name. For example, “Chicago is beating Green Bay” and, “The Texans are doing well this year.”
The language focus this week is on collective nouns and a tricky little question we often receive from listeners: when we are writing or speaking about football teams, do we use singular or plural verbs? We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!
For example in British English you would say The team are happy and in American English you would say The team is happy. But Americans prefer the use of the plural form when the individual membership is clear, for example, The team take their seats (not The team takes its seats).
Sep 13, 2005 · For a football team, in BE we would always use the plural. Arsenal were beaten (more commonly used than defeated). Chelsea are playing at home. There was a victory parade for Liverpool after they won the European cup. The team one supports is often referred to as 'we'.
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Mar 28, 2020 · Collective nouns such as “team” are treated as singular in American but plural in British English. It also depends on whether you want to refer to the group as a whole or to the individual members of the group.
