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<li>Although the White Sox win more often than the Cubs, Chicago residents prefer the cubs.</li>
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<p>I thought "win" should be wrong and should be replaced with "wins" but "win" is correct. Can someone please explain why "win" is needed instead of "win"? Is the White Sox plural? Thanks!</p>
<p>The White Sox are a team, not an individual.</p>
<p>A dichotomy lies in the fact that one sounds grammatically correct and the other sounds logical. Some say “win” and others say “wins.” I don’t think there is a universally accepted answer, but “the White Sox are” is more popular</p>
<p>According to Commnet…(which, by the way, is a great grammar website…) </p>
<p>The names of sports teams, on the other hand, are treated as plurals, regardless of the form of that name. We would write that “The Yankees have signed a new third baseman” and “The Yankees are a great organization” (even if we’re Red Sox fans) and that “For two years in a row, the Utah Jazz have attempted to draft a big man.” When we refer to a team by the city in which it resides, however, we use the singular, as in “Dallas has attempted to secure the services of two assistant coaches that Green Bay hopes to keep.”</p>
<p>^ Hold on, wouldn’t other meanings similar to “team” such as “committee” or “group” be singular?</p>
<p>here’s the link. It explains everything here:</p>
<p>[Plural</a> Noun Forms](<a href=“http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm]Plural”>http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm)</p>
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<li>Although the White Sox win more often than the Cubs, Chicago residents prefer the cubs.</li>
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<p>I thought “win” should be wrong and should be replaced with “wins” but “win” is correct. Can someone please explain why “win” is needed instead of “win”? Is the White Sox plural? Thanks! </p>
<p>It should be “wins”. According to this website [Plural</a> Noun Forms](<a href=“http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm]Plural”>http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm), team is considered a collective noun, “which are singular when we think of them as groups and plural when we think of the individuals acting within the whole (which happens sometimes, but not often)”
We have no logical reason to believe that we should be considering the White Sox as individual players but we have every logical reason to believe that in the context of the sentence, we are comparing teams, a collective noun being used in the singular form.
To the OP: Wherever you got that question from, I would disregard the answer .</p>
<p>i think it should be ‘is,’ for white sox is a team, and teams are singular. when speaking colloquially though, it’d probably be ‘are’ just 'cause it sounds better (the lakers are a good team instead of the lakers is a good team).</p>
<p>Wuchu, please read this information: [Plural</a> Noun Forms](<a href=“http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm]Plural”>http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm).</p>