Collective Nouns For Mountains and Definition PDF Worksheet For Students
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The names used when talking about a group of people, mountains, animals or things are called collective noun.
In order for something to be a collective, it must contain more than one thing.
For example; names such as team, mountain, group, crowd, flock, choir and committe are called collective nouns.
To give an example to the most commonly used community names; a panel of experts, a trouble of painters, a class of students etc. Examples of the most common community names used for animals are; a murder of sheep, a swarm of roses, a trop of lions, a pack of wolves etc. We can give examples of community names used for other things as follows; a range of mountains, a pack of cards, a wad of notes etc.
- Every morning I watch the mountain line up one after another. (“Mountain” is a singular collective name. “Watch” is a singular verb and the sentence is a singular pronoun.)
- Today he took the mountain with his camera. (“Mountain” is a singular collective name. Sentence is the singular verb and singular pronoun.)
