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The only guide for collective nouns is that it should be a noun.

Collective nouns can be functional (a herd, a team, a bushel) or collective nouns can be fanciful (a murder, a flamboyance, an embarrassment). But the thing about collective nouns is that they are artifacts of language, there are no real rules. You may use the 'accepted' collective noun or you may use a noun that seems suitable (or expressive) to you.

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