Collective nouns like 'committee' can take either singular or plural verbs depending on context; when the group acts as individual members (e.g., 'divided in opinion'), use plural verbs ('are'), but when acting as a unified entity, use singular verbs ('is').
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90% of the students would get this answer wrong because all of them have been trained to treat collective nouns as a singular quantity, but this is not the case. We treat collective nouns on the context that is given to us. In this context because their opinion is divided, we treat them as individual participants rather than a collective entity. And therefore, the answer to this question would be the committee are divided in its opinion. Start your playlist Grammar Bites today.
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