Not happy with "The staff are happy" OR "The staff is happy"
Word 2000 seems to handle it correctly, though.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Bill
Not fixable. It is still present in W2007 too.
Staff (and crowd) are collective nouns, so 'the staff is' and 'the
crowd is'
are both correct. The grammar checker happily accepts 'is or are' with
crowd - but with staff, the checker accepts neither as correct.
Both the handling of crowd and staff are inconsistent and daft.
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Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP
"Bill Davy" wrote in message
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In fact, the grammar checker seems to have green twiddlyitis with
the
following:
The staff are happy. "staff are" have twiddles (suggests "staff is"
but
see below)
Staff are happy. "staff are" have twiddles (suggests "Staff is" or
"Staffs are"
Staff is happy. "Staff" has twiddles (suggests "staffs").
The staff is happy. "Staff" has twiddles (suggests "staffs" but see
above).
A staff is happy. "A staff" has twiddles (suggests "Staffs")
Is it fixable? How?
Word 2003 SP2.
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