Thursday, February 11, 2010
fun with collective nouns
After I had read a number of student drafts, I felt compelled to administer a short quiz on pronoun agreement and collective nouns. In the course of my research, I came across the following entertaining sites:
http://idiocrasiesoflanguages.blogspot.com/2007/11/collective-nouns-humorous-outlook.html (this is a humorous list of made-up collectives, including "a quarrel of lawyers")
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/ (I especially like "an attitude of teenagers")
(njs)
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/2010/02/fun-with-collective-nouns.html