Nouns 08 - Collective Nouns

As we have learnt from the previous quizzes, nouns play an important role in understanding English and they come in different types. Nouns are very important for anyone who wants to learn English. Nouns are one of the eight parts of speech that constitute the English language. We have learnt that nouns can be classified into many types such as common nouns, compound nouns, abstract nouns and concrete nouns. In this quiz we take a look at another type of noun known as the collective noun.

As the name suggests, a collective noun is a word that describes a group of things, places, objects, people or animals. For example, we can describe bananas as a BUNCH of bananas; describe thugs as a GANG of thugs; describe actors as a CAST of actors; describe cards as a PACK of cards and describe cricketers as a TEAM or SQUAD of cricketers. All the words in capitals are known as collective nouns as they describe a group.