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Questions or inquiries relating to nouns that refer to a group as a whole.
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Collective nouns treated as singular and plural in the same sentence
I have a problem with a sentence in a news announcement I'm writing. This is the sentence:
1) Company X is expanding and hires Person Y as their new CEO.
I've previously understood that it is correc …
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