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"...I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways. Disney have used it..." If she passed any English classes or graduated from the mentioned univ
by yaddayadda 14y ago
"...I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.
Disney have used it..."
If she passed any English classes or graduated from the mentioned university, then she deserves a tuition refund.
- infoman 14y agowhy the heck did you write this? It doesn't help anyone ...
- xsmasher 14y ago"Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English. "It’s one of my favourite images I created at University" could use a [while] to my ear, but it's not so bad. The world is a big place.
- jahabrewer 14y ago> "Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English. Is it even a matter of US vs. British English? I thought collective nouns could be treated as either singular or plural when conjugating the verb.
- thedufer 14y agoI think it is. I don't know the rules, but I've never heard a US English speaker use an entity like "Disney" as plural. That said, "the police" is always plural, and I have no idea why that's different.
- xsmasher 14y agoIn the US, I would never say "The government have shut down" or "The team have lost." I would treat them as singular entities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Metonymic_merging_of_grammatical_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Metonymic_mergi...
- IvyMike 14y agoIn the US, a corporation is a person in matters both legal and grammatical.
- seandougall 14y agoAs she mentions elsewhere, she is British. And "Disney have used it" is perfectly valid in the Queen's English, even if it sounds odd to us yanks.
- rbehrends 14y agoShe is British (it says so on her site). Using plural verbs with organizations ("the police are coming", etc.) is perfectly correct British English; same for "at university" [1]. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-at-University-Phyllis-Creme/dp/0335221165 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-at-University-Phyllis-Creme/...
- pekk 14y ago"the police is coming" is not correct American English, so it's unclear what you have revealed by using "the police are coming".
- rbehrends 14y agoI'm not a native speaker, and learned British English in school, American English through informal practice while living there, so I may not have picked the greatest example. :)
- __david__ 14y agoYou are correct, though "the police are coming" isn't really a good example as that is proper American English, too.
- muppetman 14y agoYou're just showing how bad your grasp of the English language is!
- Millennium 14y agoIt's not correct American English, but she's not American. The only thing I'm not sure is correct in non-American usage is the capitalized "University"; I thought they used lowercase for the generic (much in the same way we use "college" in the US). The rest, though, reflects common usage outside the US.