{"id":39453,"date":"2020-05-29T21:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39453"},"modified":"2020-05-29T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:33:13","slug":"english-collective-nouns-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-collective-nouns-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"English: collective nouns, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, common questions can be interesting. The tutor continues about collective nouns.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-collective-nouns-part-0\/\">last post<\/a> I begin about collective nouns, such as <em>group<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A natural question about them: do you refer to them as singular, or plural? The answer is interesting. You can refer to a collective noun as plural if you mean its members are acting independently:\n<p><em>The group are planning to each work from their own homes.<\/em><\/p>\nHowever, you refer to it as singular when they act together:\n<p><em>The group is scheduled to meet at 7:30pm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Hodges, Horner, et al. <em>Harbrace Handbook for Canadians<\/em>. Scarborough: Nelson, 2003.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, common questions can be interesting. The tutor continues about collective nouns. In my last post I begin about collective nouns, such as group. A natural question about them: do you refer to them as singular, or plural? The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-collective-nouns-part-1\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: collective nouns, part 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39459,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453\/revisions\/39459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}