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You have a family, or a team: its members do xyz; it does xyz.
I think those are a little bit more flexible, Jackie, depending on context.
"My family has a nice house"
"My family have nice houses"
But I would have expected that to be transpondial.
I reckon where singulars are treated as plurals there's an implicit "members of" stuck in, it's as simple as that.
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I reckon where singulars are treated as plurals there's an implicit "members of" stuck in, it's as simple as that. Now, how in tarnation did y' all come up with an idea like that? Thanks ever so for the straight line, Fisk!
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