Nouns Warm-up 3: Collective Nouns

Nouns Warm-up 3: Collective Nouns

Collective nouns are words for single things that are made up of more than one person, animal, place, thing, or idea. You can’t have a team without individual members; even so, we discuss a team as a single entity.

EXAMPLES OF COLLECTIVE NOUNS

• Our class took a field trip to the natural history museum.

• The herd of bison ran across the prairie, leaving a massive dust cloud in its wake.

  
  

• I waited anxiously for the jury to come to a verdict.

• This year's basketball team includes three players who are over six feet tall.

Multiple Select

Which words are collective nouns?

• group

• friend

• crowd

• school

• batch

Multiple Select

Which sentence is written correctly for a collective noun?

• A tribe of goats is running over the bridge.

• A herd of elephants are knocking down the trees.

• A stack of wood is $100.00.

• The tornado is moving in our direction.

• A hive of bees is coming right at us.