When a collective noun is the subject, should the predicate be singular or plural?

1. collective noun collective noun, such as police, people, cattle (yellow cattle, livestock) and so on, always means plural. When used as a subject, the predicate should be plural:

Note that goods (goods) and clothes (clothes) only have plural forms and plural meanings:

2. clothing, poetry, luggage, furniture, machinery, scenery, jewelry, equipment and other uncountable nouns. Collective noun is usually only expressed as an uncountable noun.

3. Collective nouns such as family, team, players, class, all students in the class, crowd, government, crew, committee, audience and public.

Note that sometimes there is no specific context, and you can use singular and plural predicates: