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Perhaps, the staff work weekends? Meaning the staff members (plural) work (plural) ?
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In english the correct way to say it is "The staff is working on the weekend." The staff counts as a single entity. Just like you say "The couple is getting married." You dont say "The couple are getting married"
Both ways actually work - the plural version is quite common in the UK, especially.
Except some places DO say 'the staff' and 'the couple', for example, in the plural sense. I'm from the USA and we (at least I) don't use it in the plural..... but I now live in Australia, and they DO use those and many others in the plural. They'd say "the team ARE", for example, also.
Am I the only one who immediately thought "Why these people have to work for a moose ?"
I made a few reports because there seem to be many possible translations that should be accepted and aren't. "The staff work through the weekend." "The staff work over the weekend." "The staff work the weekend." All of these sound natural to me, a native English speaker. Is there any reason why they should not be accepted? (Aside from that Duolingo doesn't recognize it for mechanical reasons, of course.)
Is "The staff works over the weekend." an acceptable translation or is there some reason "over" doesn't work in this sentence?
This is what I came in to ask. As a native English speaker, I would say "over the weekend" not "during the weekend." That doesn't mean "during" is wrong in English. I think they are both right.
Either way works, depending on whether you prefer to look at the staff as a single unit or as all of its members. Usage mostly varies by region.
In American grade schools [here anyway], "The staff work over the weekend" is taught as incorrect subject-verb agreement regardless of whether it is meant as a collective. I teach English, and this is explained as a single collective needing a singular verb in their text. If there is more than one collective you could say something like, "The staffs work together during the merger." I can't speak for UK English, but the sentence was jarring to read to me.
Why is "The personnel work during the weekend" not correct? Personnel and staff to me are the same.
That translation is accepted - but it had a typo. I've fixed that now. :)
Yes, since weekends in the plural would almost always be phrased differently, it would be presumed that this is about a single weekend.
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I put "the staff work the weekend", it's a bit colloquial i suppose but would it still be a valid translation?
Is personal an always plural word? Like staff refers to a lot of people, but you can also say a single staff member. What would be the singular, eller är det samma sak?
Some people use personal as a countable noun, but that is not considered correct by most. So we'd say en i personalen 'a member of staff' or en anställd 'an employee' instead.
It's most often used as a mass noun. It can be used as en personal, två personal etc too, but that use is very rare outside the world of staff management.
It has to be "on" the weekend, since "in" makes it sound like the weekend is a physical thing.
The staff work the weekend should be an acceptable answer here surely. 'During' is not natural in this sentence for English, i dont think ive ever heard any one say they work during the weekend. On, over, through, at, anything but during, unless på is specifically 'during' anything else would be more natural.
