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Collective Nouns
A collective noun is the word used to label a group of nouns as a whole. For instance, a group of fish is collectively called a school.
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What is collective noun used for washing?
There is no standard collective noun for a group of showers.
Examples of suitable collective nouns for meteorologic events or parties for prospective brides/mothers might be a series of showers or a cycle of showers.
The noun shower is a standard collective noun for a shower of meteors or a shower of meteorologists.
What is a collective noun for dolphin?
The pronouns that take the place of the plural noun 'dolphins' are they as a subject and them as the object in a sentence.
Examples: We saw dolphins in the bay. They were jumping and playing. I took some pictures of them.
What is the collective form of beauties?
The verb form of beauty is beautify.
Other verbs are beautifies, beautifying and beautified.
"She beautifies herself".
"I am being beautified".
Is Book a collective noun as it has collection of pages?
There is no specific collective noun for pages, in which case a collective noun suitable for the situation is used a sheaf of pages (borrowed from a sheaf of papers), a book of pages, or in a theater setting, a staff of pages.
What is the collective noun for a group of fruit trees?
The general collective noun is a bowl of fruit.
Individual types of fruit also have their own collective nouns; for example:
- a bunch of grapes or a cluster of grapes
- a bunch of bananas or a hand of bananas
- a pint of berries or a quart of berries
- a bushel of apples
- a bushel of peaches
- a basket of plums
- a bowl of cherries
- a punnet of berries
What is the collective noun for papaya?
There is no standard collective noun for papayas. Collective nouns are an informal part of language, any noun that suits the situation can function as a collective noun; for example, a basket of papayas, a display of papayas, a plate of papayas, etc.
What is a collective noun for python?
Collective nouns for snakes are:
- a bed of snakes
- a den of snakes
- a knot of snakes
- a nest of snakes
- a pit of snakes
- a slither of snakes
- a trogle of snakes
What is the collective name for gnomes?
There is no standard collective noun for 'garden gnomes', in which case any noun that suits the situation can function as a collective noun; for example, a pair of garden gnomes; a troop of garden gnomes, a tribe of garden gnomes, etc.
What is a collective noun for clans?
- Tribe
- family
- group
- society
- tribe
- fraternity
- brotherhood
- set
- circle
- gang
- faction
- cabal
- coterie
What is a group of monkeys called?
The collective noun for monkeys are:
- a barrel of monkeys
- a cartload of monkeys
- a tribe of monkeys
- a troop of monkeys
What do you call a line of vehicles-Collective noun?
The word 'line' is a collective noun for a line of vehicles.
Another collective noun is a fleet of vehicles.
What is The collective form of performers?
well, they are a group of people that get paid to intertain, they are mostly famous people like......brittney spears, good charlotte, cirque de soloil (circus)....and many more you may think of!
What is the collective noun for the word starlings?
The collective nouns for sparrows are:
- a host of sparrows
- a meinie of sparrows
- a quarrel of sparrows
- a tribe of sparrows
- a ubiquity of sparrows
Fill in the blanks in the common noun a----- of fish?
The noun 'fish' is a common noun, a word for any fish of any kind, anywhere.
A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, thing, or a title; for examples:
Dr. Bernard G. Fish, Pediatric Cardiology, Hawthorne, NY
Fish Lake, IN 46574
The North Sea Fish Restaurant, London, UK or Golden Fish Bar, London, UK
"One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" by Dr. Seuss
What are collective nouns for names?
The noun 'cloud' is used as a collective noun to describe a group of things loosly gathered and moving together in the air.
The noun cloud is a collective noun for:
- a cloud of bats
- a cloud of blackbirds
- a cloud of flies
- a cloud of gnats
- a cloud of grasshoppers
- a cloud of insects
- a cloud of locusts
- a cloud of plankton
- a cloud of starlings
Is planet a proper noun or common noun or collective noun?
The word 'planet' is a common noun, a word for a thing.
A collective noun is a word used to group people or things taken together as one whole.
Some examples are a galaxy of planets or a system of planets.
What is the collective nouns of chicken grains?
There is no specific collective noun for chicken grains, in which case a noun suitable for the situation is used; for example a sack of chicken grain; a bin of chicken grain; etc.
What are the collective nouns for animals from a to z?
Examples of collective nouns from A to Z are:
- an ambush of tigers
- a bed of oysters
- a caravan of camels
- a drift of swans
- an exaltation of larks
- a flamboyance of flamingos
- a gaggle of geese
- a huddle of penguins
- an implausibility of gnus
- a journey of giraffes
- a kindle of kittens
- a leash of greyhounds
- a mischief of mice
- a nest of vipers
- an ostentation of peacocks
- a pack of coyotes
- a quiver of cobras
- a raft of hippos
- a school of dolphins
- a team of horses
- an unkindness of ravens
- a venue of vultures
- a watch of nightingales
- sorry, no x
- a yoke of oxen
- a zoo of animals
What is the collective noun for trousers?
There is no standard collective noun for a group of trousers.
A collective noun is an informal part of language. Any noun that suits the context can function as a collective noun; for example, a rack of trousers, a row of trousers, a heap of trousers, etc.
Note: The noun 'trousers' is a binary noun, a word for something made up of two parts to make the whole. The noun 'trousers' is a plural uncountable noun. A binary noun is a shortened form of 'a pair of' or 'pairs of'. The noun 'pair' is not a collective noun in this context.
Which word you use for the collective noun chain?
The noun 'chain' is a collective noun for:
- a chain of bobolinks
- a chain of convicts
- a chain of islands
- a chain of lynx
- a chain of mountains
- a chain of surveyors
What is the collective noun for rain?
There is no specific collective noun for rain, in which case a noun suitable for the circumstances is used, for example a sprinkle of rain, a shower of rain, a downpour of rain, etc.
What is collective noun for trash or garbage?
The collective nouns are a heap of trash and a heap of garbage.
