In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select “No improvement”. In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a herd of lions was caught snoozing on a street by any of the park’s lodges.?

Option 2 : A pride of lions

The correct answer is a pride of lions.

• The underlined part is incorrect because the use of the collective noun ‘herd’ for a group of lions is wrong as ‘herd’ is used to represent a group of animals like ‘buffaloes, sheep, cows, goats, etc’.
• The collective nouns used for a group of lions are ‘pride and troop’.
• Hence, option 2 makes the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
   

Hence the correct sentence is “In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a pride of lions was caught snoozing on a street by any of the park’s lodges”.