{"id":16553,"date":"2023-09-05T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:20:03","slug":"collective-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/en\/italian-grammar\/grammar-reference\/collective-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Collective nouns<\/strong> are nouns that indicate a set of people, things or animals but are always in the singular.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Molta <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">gente<\/span> <strong>\u00e8<\/strong> preoccupata per il cambiamento climatico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Lo <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">stormo<\/span> di uccelli <strong>vola<\/strong> nel cielo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>La <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">folla\u00a0<\/span>di persone <strong>protesta<\/strong> in piazza.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The use of collective nouns often creates difficulties in agreement with verbs and adjectives because they are singular nouns\u00a0 but refer to several things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Per evitare di sbagliare, si applica la regola della grammatica italiana secondo la quale se il sostantivo \u00e8 al singolare, anche l&#8217;aggettivo e il verbo che si riferiscono al sostantivo, saranno al singolare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Attenzione:<\/strong> i nomi collettivi possono anche avere la forma al plurale quando indicano pi\u00f9 insiemi di persone, animali o cose.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Le <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">flotte <\/span>navali <strong>navigano<\/strong> per il mare in tempesta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Le <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">squadre<\/span> avversarie si <strong>scontreranno<\/strong> tra una settimana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Collective nouns: exercises on concordance of collective nouns with verbs.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-766\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"766\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Nomi collettivi: esercizio\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>See also:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/en\/italian-grammar\/grammar-exercises\/agreement-nouns-adjectives\/\">Agreement between nouns and adjectives<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collective nouns are nouns that indicate a set of people, things or animals but are always in the singular. Molta gente \u00e8 preoccupata per il cambiamento climatico. Lo stormo di uccelli vola nel cielo. La folla\u00a0di persone protesta in piazza. 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