ENTIRE GROUP or INDIVIDUALS OF THE GROUP
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Decide if the noun is considered 'the entire group' or 'the individuals of the group'. Write the correct present tense of the verb.
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1. The crew �discussed the possibility of mutiny.
2. Our company �grown steadily over the past ten years.
3. My family �not very large: it consists of five people.
4. My family �all doctors, and they are always talking medicine when we meet.
5. The committee �recently published its report.
6. The committee �not been able to agree yet, and now three members have left the meeting.
7. Tonight, the audience �to be very willing to laugh.
8. Tonight, the audience �seem to be very large.
9. The family �all dressed for dinner.
10. Churchill's family �back to the first Duke of Marlborough.
11.�The government �decided to lower the tax rate.