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Originally Posted by Dotoar
Personally, I realised I've got more problem with missing out the S on third-person verbs, and vice versa on the others. And I'm still not quite sure wether a band for instance is considered a band or a group of people, and thus wether "the band plays" or if "they play". In swedish the verb is always spelled the same regardless of its use.
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I think even among people whose first language is English there's a lot of confusion over that. I'm not sure if this is completely true or not but in my experience it seems like American speakers tend to refer to a band as a singular thing while British speakers tend to refer to it as a group of people (ex. "Pink Floyd is my favorite band" for Americans versus "Pink Floyd are my favorite band" for Brits).