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Is your family and best friend coming to dinner collective noun and verb disagree?
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∙ 13y ago
In this case it actually doesn't matter that one of the nouns is a collective noun. Since the question inquires about more than one person, the correct verb form would be "are."
Other similar examples:
Are your brother and sister coming to dinner?
Are your neighbor and his children coming to dinner?
Are your coach and soccer team coming to dinner?
A handy way to test for correct grammar is to turn the question into a statement:
Your family and best friend are coming to dinner.
[and not]
Your family and best friend is coming to dinner. (wrong!)
Another useful test is to use a pronoun to reduce the sentence to its simplest form:
Are they coming to dinner?
[and not]
Is they coming to dinner? (wrong!)
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoNo. You would say: Are your family ...
However you say it this does not sound very good. It would be better to split it into two separate questions.
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