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Subject:is/are From:Damien Braniff <Damien_Braniff -at- PAC -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:11:58 +0000
Somebody said "If you consider Parliament as a group of people, then
"Parliament
are" is correct. If you consider Parliament as an institution,
then "Parliament is" is correct."
Isn't that a bit like saying the herd are (being made up of a goup of cows
etc)?! Surely Parliament is a collective noun for a group of MPs; Congress
a collective noun for a group of senators????
