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Collective nouns, like family, team, or police, refer to groups of people or things.
In British English we can use them either as singular nouns or as plural nouns.
Sometimes we think of the group as a single thing: E.g. The group consists of two men and three women.
Sometimes we think of the group as several individuals: E.g. The largest group are the boys.
There are a few collective nouns that are always used with a plural verb, the most common of which are police and people:
E.g. The police have helped us get home. Kind people are my kind of people.








