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Collective nouns and subject-verb agreement: general rule or arbitrary, looking at 'police' ...

There's a full discussion of this on this page https://linguapress.com/grammar/points/collective-nouns.htm Usage differs from British English to AmEn. American usage (singular subject word so singula …
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