Advanced English Grammar: Collective Nouns

ARE the English police looking for you? Or IS the English police looking for you? In this English grammar lesson we will look at how to use collective nouns like STAFF and COUPLE, and of course, police, in the correct way with their matching verbs. Take a quiz on this lesson here: TRANSCRIPT Hi, welcome again to . I’m Adam. I have another great lesson for you today based on a request... a few requests actually from our site. Today we’re going to look at collective nouns. An example of a collective noun: “staff“, “police“, “audience“, “family“. These are nouns that might include individual members or be looked at as a whole unit. Okay? So: “staff“ means the total group of employees or it could mean each individual employee. So, now you’re thinking: “Okay, well, good. What’s the problem?“ The problem is: what