Inchoateknowledge  +  253723 Tue, 08 Aug 06 05:00 PM The audience, who were largely students, were soon on their feet as they cheered the performers. The committee, which met soon after it was appointed, had difficulty in agreeing its method of procedure. Question: when do collective nouns have to take plural concord with the personal pronoun(s) and the verb(s)? Inchoateknowledge Joined on Wed, May 3 2006 Senior Member 2,549 Beep! Beep! :) Verbs, Plurals, Nouns, Pronouns

	Maple  +  253748 Tue, 08 Aug 06 05:47 PM My clumsy try: It depends if your views are inside of the collective noun to describe its components' state, nature, etc... or outside of it to mention the collective noun as an integer, especially while comparing it with other units at the same level. Maple Joined on Tue, Jul 11 2006 An ESL student in China Contributing Member 1,110 Plurals, Nouns