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The committee approves the final budget today.
8 Collective Noun Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
Before you copy
What to notice in the examples
Clear collective-noun usage keeps agreement consistent with the intended meaning: use singular treatment when the group acts as one unit and plural treatment only when dialect or context emphasizes individual members.
- Name the group with one collective noun.
- Decide whether the sentence emphasizes the unit or its members.
- Match pronouns and verbs consistently to that choice.
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The audience grows quiet as the lights dim.
3
Our team meets every Monday morning.
4
The jury reaches a unanimous verdict.
5
The class begins its fieldwork next week.
6
The staff prepares the store before opening.
7
Her family owns a small bakery.
8
The orchestra performs the final movement without a conductor.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.