collective pronoun- singular or plural? 1. The audience clapped enthusiastically. Obviously ___ had enjoyed the concert. 2. The crowd at the soccer game has huge. ____ exceeded 100,000 people. The answers to the first question and the second one are "it" and "They" respectively, but I find it hard to understand. Can someone please help? I thought that "they" should be used in the first question since it's these "people" who had enjoyed the concert and that "it"(as in "the number exceeded ... ) should be used in the second.