The words is and are are both conjugations of the verb to be, which shows existence, condition, state, or identity.; The difference between is and are depends on the subject; is goes with singular third-person subjects, and are goes with everything else.; Collective nouns describe a group, but the word itself can be treated as singular. In American English, collective nouns typically use is. More @Wikipedia
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