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This paper discusses the issues of grammatical agreement governed by collective nouns on the basis of a data set collected between 1992 and 2002. The author does not try to treat the emerging issues in their entirety: his attention is focused on errors, peculiarities, and curious examples. The analysis covers cases of clause-internal agreement as well as those of agreement spanning clause boundaries.