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Which one is correct?
The audience is on their feet.
The audience are on their feet.
2019년 9월 16일 오전 11:34
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The correct form is: The audience is on their feet.
2019년 9월 16일
the second
2019년 9월 16일
A very good question and a topic of much debate sometimes!
"Audience" is a singular but it is also a collective of people, so by very strict grammatical definition, it should be "is" but I would argue that "are" is also correct/natural because of the nature of it being a group.
2019년 9월 16일
The audience are on their feet
2019년 9월 16일
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