English in Sinhala - KIDS' Edition -Episode 016 ( Collective Nouns & Meet Kids Segment )

Amila S Kumarasinghe

Lesson - 016 | (Sixteenth Episode )

In this lesson, you will be able to learn Collective Nouns in brief with a few examples. There is an additional segment with this. You will meet two wonderful kids who will showcase some of whose talents. Listen till the last moment.

Collective Nouns

What is a Collective Noun? A collective noun is a word used to denote a group of people of the same kind. They are used with a plural sense even in the singular form. They do have plural forms too. Look at the examples given below,

Examples:-

group - A group of people / A group of musicians

team - A team of Cricketers. / There are several foreign teams of Cricketers who are willing to play for this tournament.

band - A band of musicians / In our school, there are two bands of musicians.

crew - A crew of actors / A crew of marines / A crew of filmmakers

gang - A dangerous gang of robbers /rowdies

swarm - A swarm of bees

array - An array of facts

anthology - An anthology of poems

staff - A staff of training teachers came to our school yesterday.

cluster - There are a few clusters of stars at this hour in the sky.

shoal - A shoal of fish

fleet - A fleet of ships

bunch - A bunch of keys / A bunch of grapes / A bunch of coconuts

comb - A comb of bananas

When you learn English as a second language or an international language, a lesson like above is really important to you to become fluent in the language.

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