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title: "GMAT SC Rule of the Day: 1.27.2012"
description: "Subject Verb Agreement: Collective NounsCollective nouns designate large groups of people or things. For example:People: agency, army, band, audience"
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Subject Verb Agreement: Collective Nouns

Collective nouns designate large groups of people or things. For example:

People: agency, army, band, audience, committee, congress, team

Things: baggage, furniture.

These nouns are almost always singular on the GMAT.

Examples:

The *agency controls* petroleum products regulation.

The *band plays* well.

The *furniture is* old and drab.

  

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