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Unit-15

Collective nouns

Learning objective : Students will be able to know what are

collective nouns and they will learn some collective nouns.

Explanation:

 A collective noun is the name of a collection of people, animals

or things that can be spoken about as a whole or group.

 Collective nouns are words that describe a group of people,

things or animals.

 A collective noun is a collection of things taken as a whole.

 The word “group” cannot be applied to every collection of

nouns. We cannot say group of keys or group of stars and so

on… Therefore, there are special names for each group of

different nouns.

Example- a bunch of keys,

a herd of elephants

a galaxy of stars

a bouquet of flowers

Here, bunch, herd, galaxy and bouquet are some collective nouns.

Learning outcome: Students can know what are collective nouns

and they will learn some collective nouns.