We can use singular or plural verbs with many collective nouns, Pamela, and government is one of these. Singular and plural forms are often mixed as are the pronouns that refer back to the nouns ...

Benitez-Castro, Miguel-Angel and Thompson, Paul 2015. Shell-nounhood in academic discourse. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 20, Issue. 3, p. 378.

However, there are many types of noun and noun phrase in English, and it can be difficult to know if a particular noun takes a singular verb (such as DOES / HAS / AM / IS ) or a plural verb (DO ...

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Raise your hand if you were taught in school that certain collective nouns can take either a singular or plural verb, depending on your meaning. Yeah, me neither. But that’s the case here.

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