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Apple have created a phone "Apple have?" Isn't it ironic that the very people who are supposed to be the keepers of English can't even use proper grammar? App
by sabat 16y ago
Apple have created a phone
"Apple have?"
Isn't it ironic that the very people who are supposed to be the keepers of English can't even use proper grammar? Apple HAS created a phone. Apple is a company. Singular. Not plural. There is no earthly defense (er, "defence") for referring to Apple, a company, in the plural.
- steamboiler 16y agoI think it is an usage specific to the UK. Use of a plural verb after a singular noun denoting a group of persons (known as a noun of multitude) is commoner in the U.K. than in the U.S. Fowler wrote: "The Cabinet is divided is better, because in the order of thought a whole must precede division; and The Cabinet are agreed is better, because it takes two or more to agree." Taken from: http://alt-usage-english.org/groupnames.html http://alt-usage-english.org/groupnames.html