Collective Nouns

A collective noun is a word that names a group of people, animals, or things as a single unit. 'Team' refers to a group of players.

This is true because 'flock' is a specific word used to name a group of birds acting together as one unit.

'Pack' is the specific collective noun used for a group of wolves. 'School' is for fish, 'herd' is for cattle, and 'swarm' is for insects.

'Audience' is the correct collective noun for a group of people watching a performance. The other options are either plural or singular but not collective.

'Class' is a collective noun representing a group of students as a single entity. 'Dogs,' 'books,' and 'cars' are simple plural nouns.

The subject is 'pile,' which is a singular collective noun. Therefore, the singular verb 'is' is correct, even though 'laundry' is in a phrase after it.

The collective noun 'committee' is acting as a single unit, so it takes a singular verb. 'Agrees' is the correct singular verb form.

When a collective noun acts as a single unit, it is treated as singular, so the singular pronoun 'its' is used for agreement.

Collective nouns are capitalized when they are part of a specific, official name (a proper noun), but not when they are used generally, like 'the senate committee'.

The members of the orchestra are acting as individuals (each tuning their own instrument), so the collective noun takes a plural verb, 'are'.