A collective noun Examples: committee group crowd class crew band a herd of cows a flock of birds a school of fish Collective nouns can be singular or plural. A collective noun is singular if it is interpre unit. Example: The team conducts its annual meeting every summer. (The team is interpreted as one unit.) A collective noun is plural if it is interpreted as the individual members of the unit. Example: The family are doctors. (Each family member is a doctor.) Learning Task 1: Tell whether each noun is a count noun or mass noun. 1. equipment 2. book 3. table 4. milk 5. bus 6. furniture 7. rice 8. sheep 9. flag 10. pen​