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Family is or family are?
Plural, singular or both?
Mar 27, 2013 11:45 AM
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family ism because it's meaning containing just an individual family. but when we say members of group that's including plural and when we placed with pronoun we put they...so they are...the family its replaced pronoun is "it" ..it is...
March 27, 2013
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Neither. Correct is:
THE family is/are...
You can use either.
March 27, 2013
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In AMERICAN English, "family" is usually singular:
My family liveS in a nice house; My family IS very important to me.
If you are thinking of individual members, then it's fine in American English to use the plural:
[The members of] my family HAVE interesting jobs; [The members of] my family ARE planning their summer vacations.
March 27, 2013
E' singolare, quindi "is" invece di "are."
March 27, 2013
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