🎈Collective noun with singular and plural meaning

Описание: Collective Nouns: Singular Vs Plural Meaning
Rule (Very Important)
A collective noun can take:
Singular verb → when the group acts as one unit
Plural verb → when members act individually / separately
1️⃣ FAMILY
The family has gone to the picnic.
✅ The family is acting together as one group.
The family have gone about their several jobs.
✅ Family members are doing different things separately.

2️⃣ TEAM
The team is playing well today.
✅ The team acts as one unit.
The team are changing their uniforms.
✅ Individual players act separately.

3️⃣ AUDIENCE
The audience was silent during the speech.
✅ One group reaction.
The audience were clapping and cheering.
✅ Many individuals reacting differently.

4️⃣ STAFF
The staff is very efficient.
✅ Staff as a whole.
The staff are working in different departments.
✅ Individual workers.

5️⃣ CLASS
The class has finished the test.
✅ Everyone together.
The class are discussing their answers.
✅ Students speaking individually.

6️⃣ COMMITTEE
The committee has made a decision.
✅ One final decision as a unit.
The committee are disagreeing with one another.
✅ Different opinions among members.

7️⃣ GOVERNMENT
The government has announced a new policy.
✅ Government as one authority.
The government are arguing among themselves.
✅ Individual ministers disagreeing.

8️⃣ COMPANY
The company has opened a new branch.
✅ One organization.
The company have returned to their offices.
✅ Employees acting separately.

🧠 Easy Test to Choose the Verb
Ask yourself:
“Are they doing ONE thing together or MANY things separately?”
One thing together → Singular verb
Many things separately → Plural verb

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🎈ဒီနေ့သင်ခန်းစာမှာကတော့ Collective Nouns တွေကို Singular Meaning နဲ့ Plural Meaning ယှဉ်တွဲလေ့လာရမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ Collective Nouns ဆိုတာက စုပေါင်းထားတဲ့ Nouns တွေဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဥပမာ- FAMILY, TEAM, AUDIENCE, STAFF, CLASS, COMMITTEE, GOVERNMENT, COMPANY စတဲ့ Collective Nouns တွေကို Singular နဲ့ Plural အဓိပ္ပါယ်အဖြစ် အသုံးပြုပုံကိုတင်ပြထားပါတယ်။
🎈 ဒီ collective noun တွေက one unit အဖြစ်လုပ်ဆောင်ကြတယ်ဆိုရင် Singular verb ကိုသုံးပါတယ်။ collective noun မှာပါရှိတဲ့ အဖွဲ့ဝင် တစ်ဦးစီ သီးခြားလုပ်ဆောင်ကြတယ်ဆိုရင် Plural verb ကိုသုံးရမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
🎈 American English မှာတော့ collective noun တွေကို အမြဲတမ်း singular verb ကိုသုံးပြီး၊ British English မှာတော့ အဓိပ္ပါယ်အပေါ်မူတည်ပြီး singular/Plural verb ကိုသုံးပါတယ်။ ခွဲရခက်ခဲနေရင် စာမေးပွဲအတွက် သေခြာချင်ရင် singular verb ကိုပဲသုံးဖို့အကြံပြုပါတယ်။