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Collective Nouns
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Although typically words that identify more than one person, place, or thing are
made plural in the English language, collective nouns are an exception. This unique
class of nouns denotes a group of people, animals, objects, or concepts or ideas as
a single entity.
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• Army
• Array
• Audience
• Band
• Bevy
• Board
• Bunch
• Cabinet
• Cast
• Choir/Chorus
• Class
• Cloud
• Committee
• Company
• Congregation
• Corporation
• Council
• Crowd
• Department
• Faculty
• Family
• Firm
• Gang
• Group
• Jury
• Majority
• Minority
• Navy
• Party
• Plethora
• Public
• School
• Senate
• Society
• Staff
• Team
• Troupe
Common collective animal nouns
include:
• Brood
• Colony
• Clutch
• Drove
• Flight
• Flock
• Gaggle
• Herd
• Hive
• Litter
• Nest
• Pack
• Plague
• Pride
• Skein
• Swarm
• Team
• Tribe
• Troop
• Yoke
• The class waits [singular verb] for its [singular pronoun] teacher quietly.
(The class is referred to as a unit acting in unison. The students are all doing
the same thing at the same time.)
• The class begin [plural verb] their [plural pronoun] homework assignments
while they [plural pronoun] wait [plural verb] for their [plural pronoun]
teacher. (The students are a unit, but are acting as individuals -- they each
doing their own homework assignments.)
When group nouns signify units acting as individuals rather than in unison, it is also
appropriate to add or replace words to create reference to the individuals – for
example, adding the word "members" after collectives like board or committee, or
inserting "players" for "team" or "students" for "class."
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