See also noun, parts of speech A collective noun refers to a group of things or people – crowd, herd, flock or team. As this category of noun is singular, strictly speaking, it matches with a singular verb as in ‘The crowd moves...

1 As ‘everyday language,’ colloquial speech refers to the total set of utterances in a familiar, informal context such as at home or at the workplace. 2 Product of panregional leveling between social and regional spoken language variants....

This refers to any expression which is informal and non-standard – for example ‘She ain’t at...

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A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics. Colloquialims denote a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar "common" conversation; informal colloquialisms can include words (such as...