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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 the collective noun for bells?
The collective nouns for bells are:
- a peal of bells
- a carillon of bells
- a change of bells
A carillon is a set of tuned bells operated from a keyboard.
Is religion a common noun or collective noun?
The word religion is a common noun, a general word for a belief in a god or in a group of gods; a general word for an organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules associated with such a belief; a word for any religion of any kind.
A collective noun is a noun used to group nouns for people or things in a descriptive or fanciful way; for example, a congregation of worshipers or a a mass of priests.
What is the collective noun for a family of elephants?
The noun 'family' is a suitable collective noun for elephants since elephants usually travel in family groups.
The standard collective nous for elephants are:
a herd of elephants
a memory of elephants
a parade of elephants
a flock of elephants
The collective noun mob is for?
The collective noun 'mob' is used for:
- a mob of cows
- a mob of deer
- a mob of emus
- a mob of kangaroos
- a mob of meerkats
- a mob of people
- a mob of sheep
- a mob of Texans
- a mob of wallabies
- a mob of whales
- a mob of wombats
Mob has been used as a collective noun for:
- a crowd of unruly people
- kangaroos
- sheep
- cattle (when being driven in a group)
- whales
It would be obscenely rude to not have a funeral for someone who has lived a good, productive life who was loved by many and is missed by all who knew that person. Funerals honor the life of the deceased, as the wake is just for that purpose, and for the grieving of the life lost. Funerals are reverent as everyone is supposed to wear their best clothes, or what they would wear for church, if not better. Cremations, though preferable to some, are comletely different than funerals, as cremations burn the body into ashes and have the ashes placed into an urn (vase) for safe keeping. Funerals preserve the body, though cremations are considerably cheaper (urns are cheaper than coffins). Funerals preserve the body because it is believed by many that that same body is to be resurrected when Christ comes back.
What verb do you use with a collective noun?
That depends on the tense of your sentence could be any form of a verb.
I saw a flock of sheep. I have seen a flock of sheep. I have a flock of sheep.
With singular or plural verb there is often a choice:
The committee was/were encouraged by the report.
It is best to choose the singular verb unless the idea of 'plural is strongly suggested:
The audience were clapping and stamping their feet.
If you used a singular verb here it would not be good because of the plural suggested by their arms
What are some collective nouns for relatives?
Neither is a collective noun; relatives is the plural form for the singular relative; representatives is the plural form for the singular representative.
A collective noun for relatives is a gathering of relatives. A collective noun for representatives is a committee of representatives.
What is the collective noun for a group of quizzers?
I have not been able to find a collective noun for quiz.
What is a collective noun for a collection of stories or poems?
A collection of poems or stories is often called an anthology, and sometimes a garland.
What is the collective noun for a group of mules?
The standard collective nouns for mules are:
- a barren of mules
- a pack of mules
- a rake of mules
- a span of mules
- a team of mules
What is the colletive noun of sticks?
There is no abstract form of the noun 'stick', with the exception of the use of the noun in the context of coercion by use of words or an action.
Example: This lawsuit should be the stick that gets results.
Another abstract form of the noun 'stick' is the plural noun 'sticks' used as a word for a lack of sophistication of a countryside community.
Example: He has no clue, he's from the sticks.
What is the collective noun of school boys?
There is no specific collective noun for school boys, in which case a noun suitable for the situation is used; for example a class of schoolboys, a team of schoolboys, a gang of schoolboys, etc.
A bee can fly due to its transparent, veined wings attached to the top of its thorax. The wings go up and down in a flapping movement that is made so fast (more than 20 flaps a second) that it is propelled into the air. Thus, the air around the flapping wings vibrates and a 'ZZZ' sound can be heard.
What group of collective nouns does bunch belong to?
The collective noun 'bunch' is used for:
- a bunch of bananas
- a bunch of deer
- a bunch of ducks (on water)
- a bunch of flowers
- a bunch of grapes
- a bunch of keys
- a bunch of seals
- a bunch of waterfowl
- a bunch of wigeon
- a bunch of wildfowl
- a bunch of worms
What are the examples of collective nouns hunters?
Some examples of collective nouns for animals are:
- A congregation of alligators
- A shrewdness of apes
- A battery of barracudas
- A sleuth of bears
- An obstinancy of buffalo (alternate term for herd)
- A bellowing of bullfinches
- A flutter of butterflies
- A wake of buzzards
- An army of caterpillars
- A clutter of cats
- A coalition of cheetahs
- A quiver of cobras
- An intrusion of cockroaches
- A gulp of cormorants
- A kine of cows
- A band of coyotes
- A cast of crabs
- A seige of cranes
- A bask of crocodiles
- A murder of crows
- A pod of dolphins
- A drove of donkeys
- An arc of doves
- A convocation of eagles
- A mob of emus
- A business of ferrets
- A charm of finches
- A flamboyance of flamingoes
- An army of frogs
- A leash of foxes
- A gaggle of gee
- An implausibility of gnus
- A tribe of goats
- A glint of goldfish
- A troop of gorillas
- A cloud of grasshoppers
- A bloat of hippotamuses
- A cackle of hyenas
- A party of jays
- A kindle of kittens
- A cling of koalas
- A deceit of lapwings
- An exaltation of larks
- An infestation of lice
- A pride of lions
- A lounge of lizards
- A plague of locusts
- A brace of mallards
- A richness of martens
- A shoal of minnows
What is the collective noun for a lot of clapping from an audience?
The noun for the clapping of an audience is ovation.
The noun 'ovation', a word for a sustained period of clapping from an audience, is not a collective noun. A collective noun is a noun used to group people or things in a descriptive way; for example, in the phrase 'period of clapping' the noun 'period' is functioning as a collective noun.
What is the collective noun for a wobble of?
I can't find one anywhere, that's not to say there isn't one.
How about 'A Shake of Earthquakes'
What is the collective noun for the word swarm?
The collective noun swarm is used for:
- a swarm of ants
- a swarm of bees
- a swarm of butterflies
- a swarm of cockroaches
- a swarm of coots
- a swarm of dragon fish
- a swarm of drones
- a swarm of earthquakes
- a swarm of eels
- a swarm of flies
- a swarm of gnats
- a swarm of grasshoppers
- a swarm of hornets
- a swarm of insects
- a swarm of locusts
- a swarm of mosquitos
- a swarm of rats
- a swarm of suitors
- a swarm of sycophants
- a swarm of termites
How do verbs agree with collective nouns?
present - disagree - I disagree with him.
present - disagrees - He disagrees with me.
past - disagreed - They all disagreed with me.
present continuous - am/is/are disagreeing - She is disagreeing just to be awkward.
past continuous - was/were disagreeing - He was disagreeing with everything I said.
present perfect - They have disagreed with our proposal.
past perfect - He had disagreed with our idea before.
present perfect continuous - They have been disagreeing all day.
past perfect continuous - He had been disagreeing with our idea up until now.
going to future - I know he is going to disagree, just you wait.
will future - He will disagree, I know it!
Which agreement rule applies to a singular collective noun functioning as a unit?
A collective noun and its prepositional phrase functions as a noun phrase (a word or group of words based on a noun or pronoun without a verb) that can function as a subject of a sentence or a clause and the object of a verb or a preposition.
For example: a herd (collective noun) of buffalo (preposition and object of the preposition)
The rule: a singular collective noun (herd) takes a verb for a singular subject (a herd was), and a plural collective noun takes a verb for a plural subject (the herds were).
Subject of the sentence: A herd of buffalo slowly moved across the plain.
Subject of the clause: The amazing sight, a herd of buffalo grazing, compelled us to stop and watch.
Object of the verb: We watched the herd of buffalo from the safety of our car.
Object of the preposition: We took photos of the herd of buffalo.
What is the collective noun for a group of clergy?
The collective nouns for priests are:
- a pontification of priests
- a mass of priests
- a discretion of priests
- a superfluity of priests
Is the noun soldiers a collective noun?
No, the word soldiers is the plural form for the singular noun soldier. Some collective nouns for soldiers are:
- an army of soldiers
- a battalion of soldiers
- a brigade of soldiers
- a company of soldiers
- a regiment of soldiers
- a troop of soldiers
