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Post by Vadim on Oct 14, 2009 7:01:31 GMT
Morning all, (or evening dependant on which half of the globe you're in).
What's the correct- most standard - sort-of correctish - oh, I dunno, the way you'd write the following:
Company X is a ... Company X are a ...
Or, does it need more information, is it to do with modifiers, or is it merely personal preference so stay consistant?
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Post by Geoff on Oct 14, 2009 8:20:17 GMT
Vadim,
Company X is ... Here you are referring to the company as an entity.
Company X are ... Here you would be alluding to members of the company, such as the members of the Board of Directors.
There are many similar instances where the same principle apples. Consider, for example: government, team, academy, and so on. In any one document it would be quite feasible to use the word (Company in your case) as both singular and plural.
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Post by Pete on Oct 18, 2009 0:43:45 GMT
Vadim, Company X is ... Here you are referring to the company as an entity. Company X are ... Here you would be alluding to members of the company, such as the members of the Board of Directors. There are many similar instances where the same principle apples. Consider, for example: government, team, academy, and so on. In any one document it would be quite feasible to use the word ( Company in your case) as both singular and plural. I have had a great deal of difficulty with this, because I think a company is a single entity for the purposes of grammar, as it is in law, and should always be referred to in the singular. But this does cause stylistic difficulties at times. I find this particularly when referring to HMRC and we have discussed this before, here. So I often recast or use the plural form, even though I know in my heart that it's just wrong!
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Post by Tone on Oct 21, 2009 20:30:29 GMT
>we have discussed this before, here. <
But "here" is not found!
(But indeed, we have done it before, at length.)
Tone
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Post by Dave on Oct 22, 2009 6:22:34 GMT
>we have discussed this before, here. <But "here" is not found! (But indeed, we have done it before, at length.) Tone Missing one dot (.): here is here.
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Post by Pete on Oct 22, 2009 19:21:12 GMT
Thanks, Dave.
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