120. Police - singular plural

Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:22 pm

Police is one of a few English collective nouns which should only be used with a plural verb. If you look up police in our online dictionary, you'll see that it bears the information treated as plural? This is current accepted usage in both British and American English... blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/agreement-over-collective-nouns/
Last Edit: Oct 19, 2022 at 10:32am by BM