Friday, September 23, 2011

heard, herd

Heard or heard is the past tense (yesterday, or some time ago) form of "hear", meaning what you do with your ears, such as detect or notice sound--
I heard our team won the game.
I would have heard the phone ring if anyone had called.
Have you heard of it?

Herd or herd ( rhymes with heard ) means a group of animals--cows, horses, goats, and some others--
Look, there's a herd of cows over there.
Large groups of people may develop a herd mentality.
Herd may be used as a verb ( action word)  that describes taking care of a herd of animals, as a shepherd or goatherd does, or a swineherd--
When he grows up, he wants to herd cows.

Now that you know that, you can say--
" I'm sure I heard a herd of cows mooing."

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