English Preparation

Yes, there are some collective nouns that are used to describe multiple types of groups.

Example:

• A Crew: Sailors, Airline Staff, Film Production Teams
• A Team: Office Colleagues, Project Groups, Sports Players
• A Band: Musicians, Robbers, Soldiers
• A Pack: Cards, Dogs, Wolves
• A Fleet: Cars, Ships, Planes
• A Set: Dishes, Tools, Rules  

No, collective nouns cannot be proper nouns, as collective nouns refer to a group, while proper nouns refer to specific names. However, collective nouns are common nouns.

Collective Nouns: A series of books, A faculty of teachers

Proper Nouns: Amazon, Radhika, India

Collective nouns are usually used with countable nouns like people, animals, and things. There are rare cases when collective nouns are used with uncountable nouns.

Example:

• A herd of elephants. (Correct)
• A herd of sugar. (Incorrect)

A collective noun can be singular or plural. It depends on how the group is acting in the sentence. To determine whether a singular or plural verb is to be used, one must check the context of the sentence.

Singular Verb: If the group is acting as one unit.

• Example: The team is winning the match.

Plural Verb: If the individuals of the group are acting separately.

• Example: The team are arguing among themselves.

Below are 20 examples of collective nouns.

Proper nouns are usually not used with articles. For example: I live in Delhi, He works at Google. However, exceptions apply in cases when the article is a part of the name.

For instance:

The University of Delhi has many colleges affiliated to it.

 The Times of India is a prominent English-language newspaper in India.

Proper adjectives are adjectives derived from a proper noun and describes a noun by relating it to a specific person, place or thing.

Example:

I love American culture. (derived from America)

She enjoys Indian cuisine. (derived from India)

Yes, certain proper nouns are plural like the Himalayas, the Ahujas. In these cases, no apostrophe is used.

Example:

The Smiths moved in our block yesterday. (Family or Dynasty names)

The Lord of the Rings books are a good read. (Series Titles)

This song is sung by the Beatles. (Musical/Performance group)

No, seasons are not capitalized because they are common nouns.

For example: I love spring because of the flowers.

My exams are in winters.

However, in some cases, the seasons can be capitalized only if they a part of a formal name.

Example:

“Summer of '69'” is her favourite song.

I participated in Spring Festival Committee.