What are Collective Nouns? (Collective Nouns vs Mass Nouns)
Collective nouns name a group, unit or collection as one whole or single entity: an army of soldiers.
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Collective nouns name a group, unit or collection as one whole or single entity: an army of soldiers.
The past tense of the transitive verb ‘to lead’, is ‘led’ (rhymed with fed).
To lay down is transitive and uses a sentence object (receiver of an action). To lie down is to be in a horizontal position, and
Regular verbs end in -ed in their past tense and past participle forms. Irregular verbs end in something other than -ed to show past tenses.
Volcanoes and volcanos are both accepted plurals for volcano.
Proper nouns name specific people, places or things. Common nouns name general categories and types.
Mass nouns, also non-count nouns, are things or concepts that we cannot physically count. Think fire, sand and water, which are things we cannot count.
Tongs are a plural-only noun, as tongs are made up of parts/pairs/pieces. ‘A pair of tongs’ refers to tongs as a singular noun.
As a course of action, means can be singular and plural. When referring to finance, means is always plural.