Monday, February 11, 2008

Collective Nouns - Inanimate Objects

Inanimate Objects

Species

Collective Term
(most usual first)

Aircraft

Wing

Arrows

Quiver

Asteroids

Belt

Bananas

Hand

Beans

Hill

Books

Library, Pile

Borg

Collective, Hive

Bread

Batch

Brushwood

Bavin

Cards

Deck

Circles

Crop

Collective Nouns

Catch

Computers

Network

Eggs

Clutch

Flowers

Bed, Patch, Bouquet

Grapes

Bunch, Cluster

Hair

Lock

Homework

Slew

Information

Wealth

Islands

Chain, Archipelago

Jewels

Cache

Keys

Ring

Lorries

Convoy, Fleet

Money

Rouleau

Nouns

Collective

Pearls or Beads

String

Peas

Pod

Poems

Anthology

Reeds

Clump

Satellites

Constellation

Ships

Fleet, Armada, Flotilla

Stars

Galaxy, Constellation

Tasks

Agenda

Trees

Stand, Clump, Forest


0 comments: