[Fljotsdale]

Originally posted by Father Bronze: Public falls into one of those strange categories called "collective nouns." Collective nouns can be either singular or plural (examples include: audience, team, group, committee, public, . . .). For purposes of subject-verb agreement, collective nouns can be considered either plural or singular -- depending on how the writer thinks of the sentence .

Just what I was going to say, only you did it more thoroughly! Context is all.


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