{"id":71706,"date":"2019-08-21T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71706"},"modified":"2019-08-21T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:03:51","slug":"collective-noun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/collective-noun\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective Noun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A noun which denotes a collection of individual persons or objects is called <strong>a collective noun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples are: crowd, mob, team, flock, herd, army, fleet, jury, nation, family, committee, government etc.<\/p>\n<p>In British English, a collective noun may be treated either as singular (if the whole group is being thought of as a unit) or as plural (if the group is being regarded as a collection of individuals).<\/p>\n<p>The committee has announced its decision. (The committee is regarded as a unit.)<br \/>\nThe committee are divided on this issue. (The committee is regarded as a group of individuals.)<\/p>\n<p>In American English, a collective noun is always treated as singular, and Americans say The committee is divided on this issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A noun which denotes a collection of individual persons or objects is called a collective noun. Examples are: crowd, mob, team, flock, herd, army, fleet, jury, nation, family, committee, government etc. In British English,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[786,312,768],"class_list":["post-71706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-collective-noun","tag-collective-nouns","tag-nouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71707,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71706\/revisions\/71707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}