But when the collective noun is not acting collectively, even if we want to, we cannot consider it as a unit. So, when a collective noun is acting collectively than it depends on the speaker whether he/she looks at it as a unit or talks with respect to each member. Since here each member of the collective noun ‘ family’ is not working together or we can say has different opinion and so they are fighting. The family are fighting among themselves.The family is fighting among themselves.Or they have different opinions than the collective noun is always taken as plural. If they are not working as a unit that is some members do one thing and others do some other thing. Here are some examples of collective nouns being used in sentences. ( here we are talking with respect to each member of the team which are more than one )īut this happens only when each member of the collective noun does one job all together or has same opinion. Collective nouns are used in sentences to refer to a group of people, animals, or things. ( here we are looking at the team as a single unit )
You can’t have a team without individual members even so, we discuss a team as a single entity. The reason is, it depends on the speaker whether he considers the collective noun as a unit or he refers to it as a group having multiple members and talks about each member. Collective nouns are words for single things that are made up of more than one person, animal, place, thing, or idea. Grammatically, both sentences are correct. What do you think? Which sentence is correct? So now the confusion is whether to consider a singular collective noun as singular because it is just one unit or consider it as plural because it contains more than one member. In a similar way each plural collective noun has multiple units where each unit has more than one member. But it consists of more than one individual member. Each singular collective noun given above is a single ‘unit’.
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