I would go with are. Herd of sheep is equivalent to group of people. The group of people are eating biscuits, for example.Nope, it’s the “herd of sheep” bit that’s wrong. I believe, if the sentences had said “flock”, both would have been correct, because the sheep are plural but the collective noun can make it singular - many sheep, one flock.
Ooh you cunning minx. I have heard shepherds call it a herd too so *blows raspberries*
Did the sheep in the herd have a black and white pattern? And were they kind of big and go moo?
XD I’m just kidding. But I know someone with geese who insists the collective noun for geese is ‘party’, so I’m gonna go with the puzzles website XD Plus, it was funny XD
Is a minx like a manx? If so, I’m cool with being a cunning minx.
I love collective nouns. A parliament of rooks, a murder of crows. My personal favourite, I don’t know if it’s official: an argument of cats.
A murder of crows and unkindness of ravens are the best. Collective nouns are pretty fun XD
A slump or embarrassment of swamp dragons; I’m sure you’ll appreciate that one XD
The cat one fits. I say we tell people its the official one, regardless of whether it is.
Hehe I always like the swamp dragon one. Ooh unkindness of ravens, I hadn’t heard that.
^_^
There’s also a kindle of kittens, a shrewdness of apes, a cete of badgers, a crash of hippopotami, a blessing of unicorns, an ambush of tigers, an escargatoire of snails, and a weyr of dragons.
Though, to be honest, I did just google ‘collective nouns’.
I would go with are. Herd of sheep is equivalent to group of people. The group of people are eating biscuits, for example.Nope, it’s the “herd of sheep” bit that’s wrong. I believe, if the sentences had said “flock”, both would have been correct, because the sheep are plural but the collective noun can make it singular - many sheep, one flock.
Ooh you cunning minx. I have heard shepherds call it a herd too so *blows raspberries*
Did the sheep in the herd have a black and white pattern? And were they kind of big and go moo?
XD I’m just kidding. But I know someone with geese who insists the collective noun for geese is ‘party’, so I’m gonna go with the puzzles website XD Plus, it was funny XD
Is a minx like a manx? If so, I’m cool with being a cunning minx.
I love collective nouns. A parliament of rooks, a murder of crows. My personal favourite, I don’t know if it’s official: an argument of cats.
A murder of crows and unkindness of ravens are the best. Collective nouns are pretty fun XD
A slump or embarrassment of swamp dragons; I’m sure you’ll appreciate that one XD
The cat one fits. I say we tell people its the official one, regardless of whether it is.
wow it’s already tomorrow. It’s the 25th of may. In which case,
Happy Anniversary of the Revolution of Treacle Mine Road! - Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably-priced Love! and a Hard Boiled Egg!
Also, in real life, 25 May is considered an Altzheimer’s awareness day, as Sir Pratchett was diagnosed with it a while back. In keeping with the tradition of Night Watch, the lilac is worn on this day.
(via fuckyeahdiscworld)
I would go with are. Herd of sheep is equivalent to group of people. The group of people are eating biscuits, for example.Nope, it’s the “herd of sheep” bit that’s wrong. I believe, if the sentences had said “flock”, both would have been correct, because the sheep are plural but the collective noun can make it singular - many sheep, one flock.
Ooh you cunning minx. I have heard shepherds call it a herd too so *blows raspberries*
Did the sheep in the herd have a black and white pattern? And were they kind of big and go moo?
XD I’m just kidding. But I know someone with geese who insists the collective noun for geese is ‘party’, so I’m gonna go with the puzzles website XD Plus, it was funny XD
Is a minx like a manx? If so, I’m cool with being a cunning minx.
both?
Except that the incorrect word is herd, not are or is. Neither is correct!
-fiendish grin-
I would go with are. Herd of sheep is equivalent to group of people. The group of people are eating biscuits, for example.
Nope, it’s the “herd of sheep” bit that’s wrong. I believe, if the sentences had said “flock”, both would have been correct, because the sheep are plural but the collective noun can make it singular - many sheep, one flock.
is, I think!
-fiendish grin-
Neither is correct, because the collective noun for sheep is ‘flock’, not ‘herd’.
I GOTS A PUZZLE FOR YOOOOO!
“The herd of sheep is eating hay.”
“The herd of sheep are eating hay.”
Which is correct?
Nice, but they’re still white, conventionally attractive, not visually trans* or disabled, neither of them have visable scarring, stretchmarks, etc, I mean, even on a basic body-positive note, neither of them have hair legs or armpits.
I’ve yet to see ONE graphic along these lines that actually include anything other than the chubby/skinny thing. Let’s see some fat, scarred and stretchmarked black trans women with prosthetic limbs or dwarfism or something, and hairy legs, maybe she’s got a shaped afro or something, natural black hair is looked down on by society.
Then I’ll get as excited as the rest of tumblr by these nicely drawn graphics.
(Source: paperraine, via queerfemmepolitik)
