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Bookmark or Share- grammatical number - Is "audience" singular or plural? - English ...2. The audience were divided in their appreciation of the concert. 'Audience' as a plural sounds really off. I don't think it is accepted AmE usage. "The audience are clapping their hands" sounds right to me. "The audience is huge" seems to have a different meaning from "The audience are huge".
- word usage - Difference between audience and audiences? - English ...2. Audience is a single group of people that are participating in watching a performance. Audiences is more than one group watching a performances: e.g., Audiences around the world enjoyed the stunning performance of the recent online musical. If you want to talk about plurals within a single audience, you can say audience members.
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