Guest  +  109802 Fri, 17 Jun 05 04:22 AM Which is correct: "My team looks forward to..." or "My team look forward to..." Instinctively, I would choose the later. The best reason I can give for this is the connection between the personal 'my', and the two natural examples of 'I look forward', and 'He looks forward'. Using this rule, the more personal approach of 'My team' would be in the context of 'look forward'; and alternatively 'The team' should then be followed by 'looks forward'. I do not know how technically acurate this assumption is, though. Maybe it just sounds good. Thank you. Guest

	Forbes  +  133809 Sun, 04 Sep 05 03:04 PM In British English (I cannot speak for American English) it is acceptable to treat collective nouns as plural. English grammar sometimes looks to the sense, rather than the form. Collective nouns may be felt by English speakers to be plural for the simple reason that they consist of more than one thing. Sometimes, the form of the verb will be influenced by what follows: The committee are fools. (You are thinking of the individual members of the committee.) The committee is incompetent. (You are thinking of the committee as a whole.)   Forbes Joined on Thu, Jun 16 2005 Regular Member 895 American English, Grammar, Verbs, Plurals, Nouns, British English, English Grammar

	UncleCnn  +  337469 Fri, 09 Mar 07 03:32 PM t without that 's', then it isn't English you speak. My Analyses: 1. The verb 'look' is defining the action done by the noun 'team'. 2. The noun 'team' is a collective word which means a set of persons or animals working together, so it is a singular word just like 'soldier'. 3. Recall: All singular nouns take singular verbs-which in most cases ends in 's'. Therefore, "MY TEAM LOOKS FORWARD TO...." is both semantically and synthactically correct. NB: The first and third person singular pronoun of 'I' and 'He' has nothing to do here. UncleCnn Joined on Fri, Mar 9 2007 Nigeria in Africa New Member 04 Every Man Has Bright Future. Verbs, Singular Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns