"The Company Provide" or "The Company Provides"

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi everyone,

I’ve been proof reading some things, and I’ve hit a gap in my knowledge when it comes to the following sentence:

“[The company] provide presentations for…”

My gut feeling is that it should read “[The company] provides presentations for…”, but I’m at a loss to explain why. Which is correct?

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The company provides… (singular)
Members of the company provide… (plural)

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Thanks for the quick reply, it’s greatly appreciated. We ended up going with “provides”, so I’m very glad to hear it was correct!