Collective Nouns

GRAMMAR COLLECTIVE NOUNS - SUBSTANTIVE COLECTIVE O serie de substantive, deşi au formă de singular, exprimă adesea ideea de plural. Aceste substantive se numesc substantive colective. EXEMPLE: – Family, crew, team, crowd, government, police, audience, wood, leafage, parliament, mankind etc. Ele se folosesc cu verbul la singular când se accentuează noţiunea în sine, ca un tot unitar, şi cu verbul la plural când se accentuează elementele constitutive: Ex. Family is an important element of our society. My family are at home right now. Unele dintre aceste substantive se folosesc doar cu verbul la plural: people (cu sensul de oameni, lume), folk (mulţime de oameni), cattle (vite), vermin (vermină, dăunători), poultry (păsări de curte). Ex. Vermin are very frequent around this time of year. I.

COLLECTIVE NOUNS →PEOPLE an army of soldiers a horde of savages a bevy of beauties/girls a host of angels a band of musicians a line of kings/rulers a band of robbers a mob of rioters a board of directors a group of dancers a body of men a group of singers a bunch of crooks a pack of rascals a caravan of gypsies a pack of thieves a choir of singers a party of friends a class of pupils a patrol of policemen a class of students a posse of policemen a company of actors a regiment of soldiers a company of soldiers a staff of employees a congregation of worshippers a staff of servants a crew of sailors a staff of teachers a crowd of spectators a team of players a crowd of people a tribe of natives a dynasty of kings a troupe of scouts a gang of crooks a troupe of artistes a gang of robbers a troupe of dancers a gang of thieves a troupe of performers

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COLLECTIVE NOUNS →THINGS an album of photographs a hail of bullets an album of stamps a harvest of wheat/corn an anthology of poems a heap of rubbish a basket of fruit a heap of ruins a block of flats a hedge of bushes a book of exercises a heap of stones a bouquet of flowers a layer of soil/dirt a bowl of rice a library of books a bunch of bananas a line of cars a bunch of flowers a list of names 1

a bunch of grapes a bunch of keys a bundle of rags/old clothes a bundle of firewood/sticks a catalogue of prices/goods a chain of mountains a chest of drawers a cluster of grapes a cloud of dust a clump of bushes a clump of trees a collection of coins a collection of curiosities a collection of pictures a collection of relics a collection of stamps a column of smoke a constellation of stars a clutch of eggs a crate of fruit a crop of apples a fall of rain a fall of snow a fleet of cars a fleet of ships a flight of steps a forest of trees a galaxy of stars a garland of flowers a glossary of difficult words/phrases a group of islands a grove of trees III.

a mass of ruins/hair a necklace of pearls an orchard of fruit trees a pack of cards a packet of cigarettes a packet of letters a pair of shoes a range of hills a range of mountains a ream of paper a rope of pearls a row of houses a series of events a set of china a set of clubs a set of tools a sheaf of arrows a sheaf of papers a shower of blows a stack of corn a stack of hay a stack of wood a stock of wood a string of beads a string of pearls a suit of clothes a suite of furniture a suite of rooms a tuft of grass a tuft of hair a wad of currency/notes a wreath of flowers

COLLECTIVE NOUNS →ANIMALS a catch of fish a hive of bees a cloud of flies a litter of piglets a cloud of insects a litter of kittens a cloud of locusts a litter of puppies a colony of gulls a nest of ants a drove of cattle a nest of mice a flight of birds a nest of rabbits a flight of doves a pack of hounds a flight of locusts a pack of wolves a flock of birds a plague of insects a flock of sheep a plague of locusts a gaggle of geese a school of herrings/other small fish a herd of buffaloes a team of horses a herd of cattle a team of oxen a herd of deer a train of camels a herd of elephants a tribe of goats a herd of goats a zoo of wild animals a herd of swine

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