Definition of Collective Nouns |
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Collective Nouns tell about or describe the subject in the sentence.
Opener lessons and worksheets provide ample practice for developing and improving your child's literacy skills. Concise definitions with examples are given before each exercise. |
1) Collective Nouns Mini Lesson One; Give the reader more details about your writing by using collective nouns. Examples; herd of buffalo, pride of lions, choir of singers, school of whales, pack of wolves, team of hockey players, tribe of natives, troupe of dancers.
2) Collective Nouns Mini Lesson Two; A collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects. Here is a List of Examples of collective nouns; animals, people, flock, emotions, committee, and hive.
3) Collective Noun Mini Lesson Three; Opening your sentences with collective nouns creates an interesting beginning to your writing.
4) Collective Noun Mini Lesson Four; Definition; Collective Nouns refer to a group of countable nouns as a unit. For example; there are 12 eggs in a dozen, there are 52 cards in a deck. Here is a list of some countable collective nouns;
yoke |
tribe |
swarm |
plague |
brood |
clutch |
drove |
flight |
gaggle |
flock |
bunch |
band |
nest |
agenda |
battery |
drove |
litter |
troop |
5) Collective Noun Mini Lesson Five; Here is a List of Examples of Collective Nouns;
crowd of fans |
staff of teachers |
troupe of dancers |
firm of lawyers |
group of singers |
majority of liberals |
minority of conservatives |
cloud of butterflies |
navy of sailors |
party of children |
array of cupcakes |
cast of actors |
faculty of education |
department of health |
board of directors |
congregation of worshippers |
bunch of tulips |
gang of thieves |
Opening your sentence with collective nouns grabs the reader's attention. Boring Example; The killer whale hunt in herds. Attention grabbing opening; Herds of killer whales hunt for their prey. Avoid opening your sentences with the article, "the", but open with describing words like collective nouns. Have fun searching for new describing words in all the reading that you do. Keep a notebook handy and write lists of collective nouns that you find. Start writing down your own bank of words for your perusal in all your writing pieces.
6) Collective Noun Mini Lesson Six; Definition; Collective Nouns help the reader to paint a picture in their mind about the subject in your sentence.
7) Collective Noun Mini Lesson Seven; Add flavour to your writing by describing the nouns using their group name. Worksheet 7 is a paragraph that uses numerous examples of collective nouns to enhance the story.
Collective Noun List and Examples Notebook Work; Definition- Collective nouns are the words that tell about the objects or people as a unit or group in a sentence.

