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This paper has presented the results of our analysis of number agreement with collective noun subjects. Most of the differences in concord with collective nouns analyzed were very small, but some conclusions can be drawn. Generally speaking, there seems to be an obvious preference for singular verbal concord in the English language. It is also indicated that singular verbal concord is more popular in AmE than in BrE. Plural verb forms with collective nouns are more common in BrE. But the difference between the varieties is not that big. We can also see in this paper that there are no differences between spoken AmE and written AmE. Although we can draw some conclusions about number agreement with the collective nouns from this analysis, we do have to consider the fact that the corpora used here are still too limited to determine with a 100 percent certainty that our conclusions are right. Thankfully, our analysis does seem to agree with the studies cited and drawn on in the paper, so we can say that we are on the right track, but we obviously need more evidence, especially from larger and stylistically stratified corpora, as well as statistical verification of our results for a larger set of collective nouns to arrive at more robust conclusions