3. Common nouns                                      

Father, Mother, Car, Pencil

Common nouns, name members of, or items in  a whole class of

people or things.

4. Collective nouns                            

Croud, Fleet, Forest, team, Library

Collective nouns, name groups of people or animals or collections of things.

Collective nouns can be singular or plural.

A crowd of people,         a herd of goats,     a bunch of bananas.

Domestic animals are called he or she to distinguish between male and female.

I have a cat and she eats a lot.

I have a dog and he sleeps all the time.

When the collective noun is the subject of the sentence, the verb is usually singular.  

A flock of sheep is very noisy.

A team of horses was pulling old carriage.

When the individual members of the collective group are important, the verb is plural.

The police are protecting the town.

The government are fighting poverty.

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