...a group of friends...

...a flock of delusional moms...

You know what they say. Moms of a feather...

Like it sounds, a collective noun deals with a collection -- a collection of people, animals,

or things, referred to as one whole.

And since all of us watching this video are --hopefully -- people, we tend to be most

familiar with the people-related collective nouns.

A family of four, a team of soccer players, the cast of Glee, a massive crowd of Avril Lavigne fans...

There are also plenty of collective nouns for stuff, like: a pack of grapes, a bunch

of flowers, a bouquet of cards...

Wait a second...

There we go. Much better.

And then there are the animal ones, which range from normal to... totally insane.

A pack of wolves, a pride of lions, a murder of crows, a congress of baboons...

...that last one seems pretty accurate. And the last thing to know about collective

nouns is that they're always going to be singular.

Which means that even though you're talking about a lot of things at once, you're always

going to use the singular verb form.

So, it's not "a mob of emus are," but "a mob of emus is going to make you a deal

you can't refuse."

And "an army of caterpillars is plotting an attack on the nearest leaf."

And "a crash of rhinoceroses is heading towards that glass museum."

...Someone had better tell that flock of moms to get out of

the way...