Settle a debate please?

OK. I think team, group, family are singulars, are they not?

If so, a family can't bang THEIR HEADS against the wall, right? It must be its head or its collective head, no? Same goes team and group right?

 

Singular. One family, one team, one group.

 

Yes - family, team, group are all singular.
Family MEMBERS can bang THEIR heads. But a family must bang ITS head. Same with team and group.

 

Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame
You say
One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
carry each other
carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much?
More than a lot.
You gave me nothing,
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you've got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...
One...

extended version

Can You hear us coming Lord
Can You hear us call
Feel us knocking
We're knocking at Your door

 

I would say, even though it sounds a little odd, that a family must bang its HEADS.

Family may be singular, but assuming everyone in the family has a head, then heads are being banged.

Look at it this way.

Let's say your two-car family is moving cross-country.

The correct question would be, "Is the Smith family going to drive its cars (plural) all the way to Seattle?"

If cars is plural --- and it obviously should be --- then heads should be plural (unless you specify that it's the collective head that is being banged).

 

I am now ban

I am now banging my head against a wall. Thanks.

 

Every one should bang their heads because metal health will drive them crazy

 

Diagram for you

 

This might help too, though I suggest printing it first.

 

A family is not plural, but one collective group.
(to quote Ace)"There four", a family is, but family members are

 

And in Britain, plural verbs for teams are standard..."Arsenal are," "Portugal were," "FC Bottomsnogsbury have," etc.

 

And as the late Sid Abel used to say on Red Wings' broadcasts...

"Montreal are skating well tonight, Bruce..."