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Someone had better tell that flock of moms to get out of the way

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Collective Nouns a la Shmoop A class of students a group of friends a flock

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of delusional moms You know what they say.

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Moms of a feather Like it sounds a collective noun deals with a collection a

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collection of people animals or things spoken of as one whole.

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And since all of us watching this video are hopefully people we tend to be

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most familiar with the people-related collective nouns.

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A family of four a team of soccer players the cast of Glee a massive

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crowd of Avril Lavigne fans There are also plenty of collective nouns for stuff

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like a pack of grapes a bunch of flowers a bouquet of cards Wait a

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second There we go. Much better.

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And then there are the animal ones which range from normal to totally insane.

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A pack of wolves a pride of lions a murder of crows a congress of

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baboons that last one seems pretty accurate.

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And the last thing to know about collective nouns is that theyre always going to be singular.

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Which means that even though youre talking about a lot of things at once youre

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always going to use the singular verb form.

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So its not a mob of emus are but a mob of emus is going

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to make you a deal you cant refuse.

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And an army of caterpillars is plotting an attack on the nearest leaf.

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And a crash of rhinoceroses is heading towards that glass museum. NOTE end of file

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