No
( countable) A football is the ball used in a football game
Is it correct to say
#1 In football, when you refer to a team, do you have to use was or were? For instance: Arsenal was defeated or Arsenal were defeated GenJen54 Senior Member
of Glasgow and Sporting C
We're talking here
To form the plural form of the word, you'll base it on the last letter or last two letters of
Football teams - singular or plural? Options Previous Topic · Next Topic Harptic Posted: Friday, July 31, 2015 3:55:34 AM Rank: Newbie Joined: 2/25/2015 Posts:
Other common collective nouns that often take a plural verb in British English are: army, company, jury, audience, crowd, majority, class, enemy, staff, committee, government and union
In American English, as a general rule, collective nouns (for example 'team', or perhaps a company name) are referred to in the singular ("The team was now in the field")
The possessive form develops from an added apostrophe and an “s
Find more words! FOOTBALL TEAM definition | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples 1) A group of boys is playing football
In other words, you can have more than one collective noun
, team, group, company) as singular unless you have a good reason to treat it as plural
Example: The team is heading for practice this afternoon
the national team He coached the It is a member of the Premier League
e
Here is a quick reference to Collective nouns are words that represent a group of individuals or things
Singular and plural forms are often mixed as are the pronouns that refer back to the nouns in the previous sentence
Similarly,The testing grounds outside Warminster include a mortar range and an engineer recovery area
For example, in English (at least the variety I speak), football teams will be in the plural
, the team, the defense, the offense), they follow traditional subject-verb agreement: The team was excited to play in the new stadium
, team, group, herd)
The noun 'football' is a common, compound noun