集合名词（collective nouns）,顾名思义,是指表示人或事物群体的名词。集合名词是英语词汇中非常重要的一部分,它们虽然经常以单数形式出现,却也往往可以表示复数含义,而且,有些集合名词的单、复数含义不是一承不变的,同一个集合名词用在不同的场合,或者站在不同的角度,所表示的意义也会有所差别。正因为如此,我们在潜辞造句时,时常会遇到有关于:某集合名词到底表示单数含义还是复数含义,或者某集合名词在这种情况下该用作单数还是复数之类的问题。如何把握好集合名词的“数”是英语词汇学习中的一个重点和难点,也是诸如 Collective nouns (collective nouns, as the name suggests, refers to the nouns that people or things groups. A collection of nouns is a very important part of the English vocabulary, although they often appear as a singular form, but often can be expressed in complex meanings, and some collective nouns single and plural meaning is not invariant, the same set of terms used in Different occasions, or stand in different angles, the meaning expressed will be different. It is for this reason that we often encounter problems in the absurd sentence construction: whether a certain set of terms means singular or plural meaning, or whether a certain set of terms should be used as singular or plural in this case. How to grasp the “number” of a set of nouns is a key and difficult point in English vocabulary learning,