RULE XI.—PRONOUNS.
When the antecedent is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, the Pronoun must agree with it in the plural number: as, "The council were divided in their sentiments."—"The Christian world are beginning to awake out of their slumber."—C. Simeon. "Whatever Adam's posterity lost through him, that and more they gain in Christ."—J. Phipps.
"To this, one pathway gently-winding leads,
Where march a train with baskets on their heads."
—Pope, Iliad, B. xviii, l. 657.