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.
A collective noun is singular. Jack is correct. The grammatical explanation is that words like everybody everyone are considered to be collective nouns and treated as a singular entity, a group, a singular noun. The use of a singular noun should always have a singular verb and any related possessive adjectives should also be singular (like his or her).