“The team are winning. (US)”
Grammar Entry 598 / 1605 60-second read
The team is vs. The team are
AmE singular, BrE plural.
The comparisoni
“The team is winning. (US)”
The ruleii
¶
US: singular. UK: plural.
Collective nouns (team, band, government) take singular verbs in American English, plural in British English.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
US = is. UK = are.