Subject-verb agreement can be tricky when the subject of our sentence is a collective noun for a generic noun. A collective noun names a class or a group. Nouns like “jury,”“committee,” or “group” are collective nouns. A generic noun represents a typical member of a group. Usually...
Related to collective noun:abstract noun The following article is fromThe Great Soviet Encyclopedia(1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. Collective Nouns nouns that refer to a group of persons, objects, or phenomena as an indivisible whole. Examples arerodnia(“kinsfolk”),molodezh...
A building of rooks (-TR1-) A bunch of drongoes (-suggested by David Bannister, db@antiquemaps.co.uk-) A bunch of grapes (-submitted by ojo6-) A bunch of janes (-suggested by David Bannister, db@antiquemaps.co.uk-) A burden of yolks (-suggested by RP4-) ...
For example, the “Book of St. Albans”, dating back to 1486, was a guide to hawking and hunting, and listed many of the collective nouns for animals we still use today. For some animals, there is more than one collective noun, reflecting how close people have been to them througout h...
For example, the “Book of St. Albans”, dating back to 1486, was a guide to hawking and hunting, and listed many of the collective nouns for animals we still use today. For some animals, there is more than one collective noun, reflecting how close people have been to them througout ...