What is wrong with this sentence?" Here are a group of yellowbreasted chat" I am referring to a kind of bird.

Question

i don't know the answer. But the study says there's something wrong with the sentence. can you figure it out? and what is the problem...explain.

Answer 1

Even those you have a group, it is collective and should be counted as one, so it should read "Here IS a group of yellow-breasted chats."

However, when we break it apart, it works the other way

"There are the yellow-breasts chats I told you about", we have a group of them, but they are not defined as a group, more of a collective of numbers.

BUT when you have numerous groups, you shift back

"There are several groups of yellow-breasted chats in the area"

Answer 2

Are is a plural verb and group is a singular word eventhough it refers to birds in the plural. The correct way to phrase the sentence would be, Here is a group of yellow breasted chat. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

group although it refers to more than one, it is singular in spelling therefore you should have said. "Here is a group of yellowbreasted chat" This is assuming that there is such a bird as a yellowbreasted chat, if there isn't then that just adds more mistakes to the sentence.

Answer 4

The anwers so far are half right. Group is singular thus you should use "is", but one yellowbreasted chat, or many yellowbreasted chatS.

Answer 5

here is a group of yellowbreasted chat
haha yellowbreasted
by the way you dont need to be studtying english in college to know this. im not sayin this to you though

Answer 6

hmm..ok you should say here ''is''....cuzz ''group'' is countable and its just one! so the verb should be on the number of the noun..which means ''is'' and not ''are''..if you had ''birds'' then it would be ''are'' but you have '' a group of birds''...it doenst have to do with the meaning but with the syntaxis and grammatic phenomenos..