Give you 10 examples of person collective nouns?

Answer 1

school_of_fish">school of fishflock of birdsflock - bird /sheep

herd - cows

pod - dolphins

team - people

set - of books

family - actors

swarm - bees

colony - ants

troop - apes

flight - geese

Answer 2

A collective noun is a word used to group people or things taken together as one whole in a descriptive way. A noun used as a collective noun gives some illustration of the group named.

Examples of collective nouns for people:

1. a crowd of people (the general word 'crowd' means a large group of people)
2. a mob of people (the noun 'mob' is a large, unruly group of people)
3. a troupe of acrobats (the noun 'troupe' is a group of people who perform together as a group)
4. a company of actors (the noun 'company' is a group of people who perform together as a group)
5. a board of directors (the noun 'board' is a group of elected or appointed people who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization)
6. a bench of judges (the noun 'bench' is a word for the place in a court where the judges are seated, historically, when more than one judge was hearing a matter, the judges were seated on a bench)
7. a team of players (the noun 'team' is a word for a group of people organized to work together in competition with another group or groups)
8. a crew of sailors (the noun 'crew' is a word for a group of people organized to work together to accomplish a goal, such as operate a boat or a ship)
9. a congregation of worshipers (the noun 'congregation' is a word for a body of assembled people, traditionally assembled for a religious service)
10. an audience of listeners (the noun 'audience' is a word for a body of assembled people at a public event for any purpose)

Answer 3

Examples of collective nouns:

1. an arrangement of flowers
2. a band of soldiers
3. a charm of goldfinches
4. a drift of swans
5. an embarrassment of riches
6. a flock of geese
7. a gang of elk
8. a herd of elephants
9. an implausibility of gnus
10. a journey of giraffes
11. a kettle of fish
12. a litter of puppies
13. a mob of kangaroos
14. a nest of vipers
15. an ostentation of peacocks
16. a pride of lions
17. a quarrel of sparrows
18. a round of drinks
19. a sheaf of wheat
20. a throng of tourists

Answer 4

Examples of collective nouns for people are:

1. an audience of listeners
2. a company of actors
3. a crew of workers
4. a crowd of onlookers
5. a flock of tourists
6. a gang of hoodlums
7. an orchestra of musicians
8. a posse of police
9. a slate of candidates
10. a staff of employees

Answer 5

A collective noun is a word used to group people or things taken together as one whole in a descriptive way. Example sentences:

1. We have a network of computersconnecting all of our retail stores.
2. A crowd of onlookers at gathered at the scene of the accident.
3. The farmer brought his herd of cattleto the barn each evening.
4. The winner is chosen by a panel of judges.
5. I picked up a bushel of corn at the farmers' market.
6. In the summer, a troupe of actorsperforms in the park on Friday evenings.
7. Wash a bunch of grapes to serve with lunch.
8. We heard a pack of wolves howling in the distance.
9. Spend a little money, buy a pack of gum.
10. The board of directors meet today at ten.

Answer 6

Examples of collective nouns:

1. abandonment of orphans
2. absence of waiters
3. army of ants
4. army of frogs
5. ascension of larks
6. bag of tricks
7. bale of turtles
8. band of angels
9. band of coyotes
10. band of gorillas

Answer 7

Examples of collective nouns:

1. abandonment of orphans
2. absence of waiters
3. army of ants
4. army of frogs
5. ascension of larks
6. bag of tricks
7. bale of turtles
8. band of angels
9. band of coyotes
10. band of gorillas
11. band of muscians
12. band of pirates
13. bank of elevators
14. barrel of monkeys
15. barren of mules
16. bask of alligators
17. bed of oysters
18. bench of magistrates
19. bevy of beauties
20. bevy of quails
21. blessing of unicorns
22. block of flats
23. board of directors
24. body of pathologists
25. bouquet of flowers
26. brace of ducks
27. brace of pheasants
28. brood of hens
29. bunch of grapes
30. bushel of corn
31. bushel of crabs
32. caravan of camels
33. chain of mountains
34. charm of finches
35. charm of hummingbirds
36. chest of drawers
37. class of students
38. cloud of grasshoppers
39. cluster of stars
40. clutch of eggs
41. collection of stamps
42. colony of ants
43. colony of beavers
44. colony of penguins
45. company of actors
46. company of owls
47. congregation of crocodiles
48. congress of baboons
49. convocation of eagles
50. coven of witches

Answer 8

A collective noun is a noun used to group people or things in a descriptive way.

Examples are:

1. a crowd of people
2. a bunch of grapes
3. a staff of employees
4. a herd of cattle
5. a network of computers