@Robusto Yep, the wording is classic trollese

@userr2684291 Your gravatar is that ugly green again which is not exactly olive

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ You could say it's inadverdant.

Lol.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ But it isn't. It looks legit.

ell.stackexchange.com/a/203125/3395 "The Virginia State Police is investigating the discovery of two bodies at a crash site along US 23 in Lee County early Sunday morning." I think because the p in police is capitalized, and because it's part of The Virginia State Police, this is acceptable as the name of a department or something like that. In AmE you'd expect these to be treated as grammatical singulars.

From essexpolicemuseum.org.uk/the-law-archive/n_9909lw.pdf (BrE; utilised, colourful), "We are pleased to note that Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary has confirmed that the Essex Police is efficient and effective...", "FIVE years after completing a survey of visitors to police stations, Essex Police is conducting a follow-up...", etc. – so even in BrE I think this use is okay even though I'd expect plural verbs.

I need some feedback here.

Wow

Great design

of the site

Yep. My favourite part is the visitor counter (view count) on each question.

@Man_From_India Maybe you can explain in little more detail why well isn't an adverb modifying is, rather than focusing on all, etc. (they really didn't ask about that).

@snailboat Would you say You gonna walk because the police... is Standard English? I think it's just non-standard.

Not sure where to draw a line between very informal and non-standard, to be honest.

@userr2684291 The whole "organisations plural/singular" thing is, I think, a matter of tendency on both sides of the Atlantic, rather than clear blue water between the dialects.

Heh. The police thing, though, is, or should be, clear.

I'll accept You gonna eat that? as just informal, but not that particular example above. It just seems too deliberate.

CGEL only lists (at least where I looked) various types of ellipsis at the beginning of a sentence. So my sentence above, Not sure where to..., should be okay.

(There are other types of ellipsis, but I haven't found anything like this.)

@SamBC books.google.com/ngrams/… – that's AmE. If you select BrE, you'll see an even "worse" ratio.

That is the year 2000, but I doubt a lot has changed since then.

BNC: 62 to 1, COCA: 140 to 9. The 9 occurrences are nicely spread across 9 different years, except 2 which are from 1995.

(The last year being 2017.)

@userr2684291 I think police may be a slightly unusual case. Can't imagine why they would be, though.

@userr2684291 My first reaction to it is "non-standard". I would say "The Virginia State Police are investigating" but "The County Sheriff's Department is investigating" and "Chicago PD is investigating". Also, CNN isn't exactly the gold standard for language IMO

Warning this is explicit - but the talking at the very beginning of this is the type of speech I think of when I here "The police is here.." youtu.be/oJyYHmoqLMU

I compare this "They always say that the police is here for our safety, and for our support and help," he says. "A lot of people are scared to call on them now." to

“(We want) the kids to understand that the police are here help them. They’re not there to do things against them and for them to learn, they can go to the police and find out what’s going on,” he said. and it seems like it could go either way depending on the region.

Maybe it's an example of AAVE, I'm not sure.