Most people understand that the verb needs to match the number of subjects – that is, if the subject is singular, the verb is the single tense, but if the subject is plural, the verb must be the plural version.<\/p>\n
For example:<\/p>\n
the boys go to the park daily\u00a0 OR the boy goes to the park daily<\/p>\n
they sing very well\u00a0\u00a0 OR\u00a0\u00a0 she sings very well<\/p>\n
my\u00a0friends eat quickly\u00a0\u00a0 OR\u00a0\u00a0 my\u00a0friend eats quickly<\/p>\n
Where people sometimes get confused is with words that appear plural when they aren’t, or singular when they are plural. For example, children, women and\u00a0men are plural even though they don’t end in s, and words such as crowd, group, herd and pack are singular even though they have multiple parts.<\/p>\n
When writing about a business, it is also a singular word even if it sounds plural (for example Woolworths and Brambles are both singular so ‘Brambles is in Australia’s top 100 companies’ is correct.)<\/p>\n
Remember that the business name could be replaced with the word ‘it’ so match the verb with ‘it’. A business or a company is a thing (the people behind it are its staff or owners) so does not use the pronoun ‘they’, although is a common misuse in conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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