query: Collective nouns - singular vs. plural verbs?
positive_passages.docid: 7374
positive_passages.text: Are collective nouns always plural, or are certain ones singular?
negative_passages.docid: 143438
negative_passages.text: Subject/verb agreement when a title ends in a plural
negative_passages.docid: 40531
negative_passages.text: Are units in English singular or plural?
negative_passages.docid: 34341
negative_passages.text: Using a singular or plural verb after "and/or"
negative_passages.docid: 61594
negative_passages.text: Are abstract nouns always singular? Or are there such things as 'plural abstract nouns'?
negative_passages.docid: 23334
negative_passages.text: Singular or plural "set"?
negative_passages.docid: 127022
negative_passages.text: "[adjective] and [adjective] [noun]" -- Should the noun be singular or plural?
negative_passages.docid: 128236
negative_passages.text: Singular vs. Plural with Multiple Gerunds as Subject (IE: [Gerund] and [Gerund] are/is [something].)
negative_passages.docid: 38834
negative_passages.text: Are these plural or singular?
negative_passages.docid: 18707
negative_passages.text: "The maximum number": plural or singular?
negative_passages.docid: 73844
negative_passages.text: Singular or plural verb with two subjects
negative_passages.docid: 35049
negative_passages.text: What is the collective noun for a collection of collective nouns?
negative_passages.docid: 99573
negative_passages.text: Using plural and singular to refer to the same thing(s)
negative_passages.docid: 90999
negative_passages.text: Singular to plural noun
negative_passages.docid: 42705
negative_passages.text: Is "singular they" widely used?
negative_passages.docid: 31632
negative_passages.text: Should I use the singular or plural verb in mathematical formulae ("Two and two make/makes four")?
negative_passages.docid: 103621
negative_passages.text: Which nouns can be used as verbs?