{"id":53261,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/in-the-phrase-a-flock-of-geese-is-flock-a-collective-noun-is-geese-a-common-noun-or-is-the-common-noun-a-flock-of-geese"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:07:21","slug":"in-the-phrase-a-flock-of-geese-is-flock-a-collective-noun-is-geese-a-common-noun-or-is-the-common-noun-a-flock-of-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/in-the-phrase-a-flock-of-geese-is-flock-a-collective-noun-is-geese-a-common-noun-or-is-the-common-noun-a-flock-of-geese\/","title":{"rendered":"In the phrase, &#8220;a flock of geese,&#8221; is flock a collective noun? Is geese a common noun? Or is the common noun &#8220;a flock of geese&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are both common and flock is a collective noun. The whole expression is not a noun.<\/p>\n<p>Nouns are single words so <b>a flock of geese<\/b> is not a noun. Flock and geese are both common nouns. <\/p>\n<p>Word flock is a collective noun because it is used to describe a group of objects (here birds)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are both common and flock is a collective noun. The whole expression is not a noun. Nouns are single words so a flock of geese is not a noun. Flock and geese are both common nouns. Word flock is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/in-the-phrase-a-flock-of-geese-is-flock-a-collective-noun-is-geese-a-common-noun-or-is-the-common-noun-a-flock-of-geese\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}