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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
- 00:04
of delusional moms You know what they say.
- 00:07
Moms of a feather Like it sounds a collective noun deals with a collection a
- 00:11
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
- 00:19
most familiar with the people-related collective nouns.
- 00:22
A family of four a team of soccer players the cast of Glee a massive
- 00:26
crowd of Avril Lavigne fans There are also plenty of collective nouns for stuff
- 00:30
like a pack of grapes a bunch of flowers a bouquet of cards Wait a
- 00:34
second There we go. Much better.
- 00:37
And then there are the animal ones which range from normal to totally insane.
- 00:41
A pack of wolves a pride of lions a murder of crows a congress of
- 00:45
baboons that last one seems pretty accurate.
- 00:48
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
- 00:57
always going to use the singular verb form.
- 01:00
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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