Angry Orchard's David Sipes Gets Samuel Adams to Try Cider. PORTLAND, Ore. ( TheStreet) -- When you grab a pint in almost any of New England's pubs, cider sits right beside stouts and lagers as a drink of choice. It's not a beer substitute, it's not there just for beer haters or vegans -- it just is.
collective noun. n. 1. (Grammar) a noun that is singular in form but that refers to a group of people or things. Usage: Collective nouns are usually used with singular verbs: the family is on holiday; General Motors is mounting a big sales campaign.
Some nouns are by definition collective nouns such as crowd , he â¦ rd , or bouquet , words for groups. Some nouns can sometimes function ascollective nouns or not: Please set the table . (not a collective noun) or a table of contents (a collective noun). And some nouns are usedas collective nouns because people like the way they sound or theway they color the image of a group; for example, a stand of flamingos and a flamboyance of flamingos. Both are standard collective nounsfor flamingos. Some examples are: .