Sean Connery
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...then you can get into the differences between American and British English.
Let's say an American and a Brit went to a Drowning Pool concert:
The American might say "Drowning Pool was good last night"
The Brit might say "Drowning Pool were good last night"
The generally accepted rule in America is that Drowning Pool is one singular group, therefore the singular verb "was" is used.
Brits would say it's understood that Drowning Pool is made up of several members, therefore the verb "were" is used.
Let's say an American and a Brit went to a Drowning Pool concert:
The American might say "Drowning Pool was good last night"
The Brit might say "Drowning Pool were good last night"
The generally accepted rule in America is that Drowning Pool is one singular group, therefore the singular verb "was" is used.
Brits would say it's understood that Drowning Pool is made up of several members, therefore the verb "were" is used.
yeah, except for the word "government" which has a tendency to stay as singular, right?Learned about this last semester. But what does it have to do with a proper noun? is a propper noun a non collective noun?
Proper vs common nouns. Proper nouns refer to specifics and common nouns refer to classificiations. Ex-cookies vs Oreos, girl vs Diana, country vs Netherlands, taco vs Tico's Taco Hut
So you would've capatilized I'd after the semicolon because you always start the word 'I' with a capital letter.
A collective noun is one that refers to a group as one entity (corporation, gang, crew, pack)
....edit: I see to be following right behind Gooch in this thread