Name : Rabiatul
Adawiyah
SRN : 080 112
0374
Class : A
Subject :
Vocabulary
Collective Noun
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Definiton of collective noun
Collective
nouns refer to groups of people,
animals, or things.[1]
For example, a collection is
made up of a group of things (in this case, stamps) acting as one whole and an audience is made up of a
group of people acting as one whole.
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Example of collective noun
Groups of people - army, audience, band, choir, class, committee, crew, family, gang,
jury, orchestra, police, staff, team, trio
Groups of animals - colony, flock, herd, pack, pod, school, swarm
Groups of things - bunch, bundle, clump, pair, set, stack
Other example:
Array, Bevy, Board, Cabinet, Cast, Cloud, Company, Congregation,
Corporation ,
Council,
Crowd,
Department,
Faculty,
Firm,
Group,
Majority ,
Minority,
Navy,
Party,
Plethora,
Public,
School,
Senate,
Society,
Staff,
Troupe,
Brood,
Clutch,
Drove,
Flight ,
Gaggle,
Hive,
Litter,
Nest,
Plague,
Pride,
Skein , Team,
Tribe,
Troop,
Yoke.
Example of sentence: The company has decided to open ten new
outlets.
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Use correct verbs and pronouns with
collective nouns.
The
explanation to use verb and pronoun with collective noun from www.chompchomp.com:
Collective nouns can be either singular
or plural, depending on context. In writing, this double status often causes
agreement errors. How do you tell if a collective noun is singular or plural?
What verbs and pronouns do you use with the collective noun?
Here is the key: Imagine a flock of
pigeons pecking at birdseed on the ground. Suddenly, a cat races out of the
bushes. What do the pigeons do? They fly off as a unit in an attempt to
escape the predator, wheeling through the sky in the same direction.
People often behave in the same manner,
doing one thing in unison with the other members of their group. When
these people are part of a collective noun, that noun becomes singular and
requires singular verbs and pronouns. As you read the following examples,
notice that all members of the collective noun are doing the same thing
at the same time:
Every afternoon the baseball team
follows its coach out to the hot field for practice.
Team = singular; follows = a
singular verb; its = a singular pronoun. All members of the team arrive at the
same place at the same time.
Today, Dr. Ribley's class takes its
first 100-item exam.
Class = singular; takes = a singular
verb; its = a singular pronoun. All members of the class are testing at the
same time.
The jury agrees that the state
prosecutors did not provide enough evidence, so its verdict is not guilty.
Jury = singular; agrees = a singular
verb; its = a singular pronoun. All members of the jury are thinking the same
way.
Now imagine three house cats in the
living room. Are the cats doing the same thing at the same time? Not this
group! One cat might be sleeping on top of the warm television. Another might
be grooming on the sofa. A third animal might be perched on the windowsill,
watching the world outside. There is one group of animals, but the
members of that group are all doing their own thing.
Members of collective nouns can
behave in a similar fashion. When the members are acting as individuals,
the collective noun is plural and requires plural verbs and pronouns. As
you read these examples, notice that the members of the collective noun are not
acting in unison:
After the three-hour practice under
the brutal sun, the team shower, change into their street clothes, and head to
their air-conditioned homes.
Team = plural; shower, change, head
= plural verbs; their = a plural pronoun. The teammates are dressing into their
individual outfits and leaving in different directions for their individual
homes.
After the long exam, the class start
their research papers on famous mathematicians.
Class = plural; start = a plural
verb; their = a plural pronoun. The students are beginning their own research
papers—in different places, at different times, on different mathematicians.
The jury disagree about the guilt of
the accused and have told the judge that they are hopelessly deadlocked.
Jury = plural; disagree, have told =
plural verbs; they = a plural pronoun. Not everyone on the jury is thinking the
same way.
Whenever you cannot decide if a
collective noun is singular or plural, exercise your options as a writer. You
have two ways that you can compose the sentence without causing an agreement
error: 1) insert the word members after the collective noun [jury members,
committee members, board members], or 2) use an entirely different word
[players instead of team, students instead of class, soldiers instead of army].
Then you can use plural verbs and pronouns without worrying about making
mistakes or sounding unnatural.
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