Collective nouns describe many individuals who form a group.

集合名词描述的是组成一个群体的诸多个体。

In some cases, " faculty" is a collective noun, not a mass noun.

在某些情况下，“faculty”是一个集合名词，而不是一个物质名词。

It's also the general collective noun for birds as well, not just chickens.

它也是描述鸟的一个集合名词，不仅仅用于鸡。

And, although " people" is defined as many humans, it is not a collective noun.

而且，尽管people被定义为许多人，但它不是一个集合名词。

Toiletries. Toiletries are well it's the collective noun that we use for anything that comes from the bathroom so makeup, shampoo, toothbrush.

盥洗用品。盥洗用品是我们对浴室所有东西的统称，如化妆品、洗发水、牙刷。

Today we're going to look at collective nouns.

今天我们要看的是集体名词。

Now, keep in mind sometimes you have collective nouns as subjects.

现在，请记住，有时您将集体名词作为主语。

In American English, collective nouns are usually singular and usually take a singular verb.

在美式英语中，集体名词通常是单数形式，通常带单数动词。

The collective noun is a murder of crows, in fact.

其集体名词应该是“一群”乌鸦 西方的量词形容方式比较特别， 会用一些能产生联想的词汇表示， 比如这里a murder of crows指一群乌鸦，murder本意为谋杀， 故接下来会有杰弗里说谋杀的冷笑话。

So when we have a collective noun, we have a different apostrophe rule.

所以当我们有一个集体名词时，我们有不同的撇号规则。

So personnel is plural, but normally collective nouns in American English are singular.

所以人员是复数，而美式英语中的集体名词通常是单数。

These “collective nouns” allowed the hunters to share their appreciation for nature's animals...before

这些“集体名词” 让猎人能够分享他们对大自然动物的欣赏. . . . . .

So, collective nouns are nouns we use to talk about a group of things, animals, or people.

因此，集体名词是我们用来谈论一组事物、动物或人的名词。

An example of a collective noun: " staff" , " police" , " audience" , " family" .

集体名词的例子：“工作人员”、“警察”、“观众”、“家庭”。

This is a common question related to whether the verb should be singular or plural after collective nouns.

这是关于动词在集体名词后应该是单数还是复数的常见问题。

So what we do is we put the collective noun down, and then we do apostrophe " s" .

所以我们要做的是先写集体名词，然后写撇号“s”。

Let's compare the collective nouns apostrophe rules to just normal nouns where we put an " s" to show more than one.

让我们将集体名词的撇号规则与普通名词进行比较，在普通名词中我们放置一个“s”来表示不止一个。

So we don't say " womens" with an " s" because " women" means more than one, that's what a collective noun is.

所以我们不说带“s”的“女人”，因为“女人”的意思不止一个，这就是一个集合名词。

A collective noun represents a noun standing for a collection of individuals or not necessarily individuals, but within one bigger thing.

集体名词代表一个名词，代表一组个体或不一定是个体，但在一个更大的事物中。

The department belonging to the children is upstairs so we put the collective noun and then apostrophe " s" to show that possession.

属于孩子们的部门在楼上，所以我们把集体名词放在后面，然后加上撇号“s”来表示拥有。