Sentence Correction

Also Agree with B (with the comma for many of the above reasons). Wondering if Cattle's is also wrong here...doesn't that imply 1 cattle?

720dreaming wrote:Also Agree with B (with the comma for many of the above reasons). Wondering if Cattle's is also wrong here...doesn't that imply 1 cattle?

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows! And surprisingly it is not a collective noun!! so you can not treat it as a singular noun. My roommate is a native English speaker and I asked him whether cattle is plural or singular. He automatically said: oh it is plural He knew that it was plural but he did not know why...

logitech wrote:

720dreaming wrote:Also Agree with B (with the comma for many of the above reasons). Wondering if Cattle's is also wrong here...doesn't that imply 1 cattle?

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows! And surprisingly it is not a collective noun!! so you can not treat it as a singular noun. My roommate is a native English speaker and I asked him whether cattle is plural or singular. He automatically said: oh it is plural He knew that it was plural but he did not know why...

Correct - "cattle" is just a fancy way of saying "cows", so it's a plain old plural noun (like geese or hippopotimi). You'd never say "a cattle" (without adding something on, anyway), so it can't be singular.

"A herd of cattle" would be a singular collective noun.

"Cattle's" is also correct. We only do wacky things with possessives if we already have a plural noun that ends in an "s". For example:

noun: cows
possessive: cows'

as opposed to a singular noun that ends in an "s":

noun: bus
possessive: bus's

which looks wacky, but is correct!