Subject Verb Agreement in English Grammar | Part 2: Collective Nouns

In this lesson, we will discuss collective nouns and if they are singular or plural. How do we make sure the subject and verb agree when using collective nouns in English? What are collective nouns? Are there any exceptions?
Subject-verb agreement means that the subject and verb must agree in number. There are many different rules to follow, so this series aims to explore the rules in detail.
In part one of my Subject-Verb Agreement series, we learned that singular subjects need singular verbs and plural subjects need plural verbs. In this lesson, we'll explore collective nouns. A collective noun is a term used to represent a group or collection of people, animals, or things.
Example: team, flock, group, family
We'll discuss how we use singular and plural verbs with collective nouns and the differences between British and American English. You'll also learn about quantifying expressions with collective nouns and the rules of subject-verb agreement with these expressions.
Example: a BATCH of cookies / a STACK of books / a TEAM of engineers
At the end of this lesson, there will be a subject-verb agreement quiz on collective nouns and quantifying expressions to test your knowledge!
➡ Part 1: The Basics of Subject Verb Agreement: • Subject Verb Agreement...
➡ Part 2: Collective Nouns: • Subject Verb Agreement...
➡ Part 3: Countable vs. Uncountable Nouns: • Subject Verb Agreement...
➡ Part 4: Compound Subjects with And/Nor/Or: • Subject Verb Agreement...
➡ Part 5: Inverted Sentences with Here & There: • Subject Verb Agreement...
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:07 - What are Collective Nouns?
02:30 - Singular VS Plural Collective Nouns
04:40 - Subject-Verb Agreement with Collective Nouns
06:24 - Collective Nouns with Single VS Plural Verbs
08:17 - British English VS American English
09:24 - Quantifying Expressions
12:38 - Common Collective Nouns
13:49 - Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz
15:10 - Answers
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➡ Part 1: The Basics of Subject Verb Agreement: th-cam.com/video/ZOKNQjUzVdM/w-d-xo.html
➡ Part 3: Countable vs. Uncountable Nouns: th-cam.com/video/4eeoTWmsuHo/w-d-xo.html
➡ Part 4: Compound Subjects with And/Or/Nor: th-cam.com/video/ZRnt3_lUEDs/w-d-xo.html

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A type of government (followed by singular) but how about Different types of government? Should it be followed by singular or plural? How about different types of governments? or different type of governments?
1. different types of government ???
2. different types of governments ???
3. different type of governments ???
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(herd = singular collective noun)

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