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Is cattle singular or plural?

by mbrown10012 » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:50 pm
Neither the horse nor the cattle could get (its / their) fill of grass in the pasture after two months of drought.

I thought "cattle" is singular, therefore the answer should be "its".

However the answer on my book is "their". Is this merely a typo?
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by honeysn » Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:27 pm
Few words like Police, Cattle are always treated as plural ....
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by AIM GMAT » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:13 am
I agree with honeysn , that cattle is always treated as PLURAL , just like the police.

I would like to add a link to good exercise, making concept clear :-

https://www.better-english.com/grammar/sinplu.htm
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