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Hi all, when referring to the opponent team as a whole in a football/basketball match, should I call them "opponent" or "opponents"? When I look up this word in the dictionary, the word is defined as a person, but I wonder if it can also refer to a team of players. Many thanks! :) Manchester had the best players on the day.
the players sports academy, (Would only sound correct to me if we're talking in relation to something like a competition where many teams played and they were the best of all). The team signed up [= signed on] several new players. The record label signed the band up. On the other hand, 'He saw them playing soccer' places an emphasis on the players ('them playing'). 'I have seen them in the classroom and I have seen them playing soccer, and they looked like two different lots of children'.
the players sports academy, They began by defining the concept of a "finite game", as any game between two players that was guaranteed to end within a finite number of moves. Noughts and crosses (also called tic-tac-toe) is one example of a finite game. The players of Real Madrid have won the World Cup. Nikon is going to announce a new camera. Nikon representatives are going to announce a new camera. From British folks, articles, etc I often see the plural, when no such distinction is made.
It seems to me just to be the British style with collective nouns. Real Madrid have one the World Cup.
