english grammar

Collective nouns name groups (things) made up of members   (usually people or animals). The crowed has no discipline.(a collection of people) The army is formed with discipline.(a collection of soldiers) Niren is the first boy in the class .(a collection of students) You must watch the fleet. (a collection of armed ships) List of Collective Nouns A A faculty of academics A troupe of acrobats A cast/company of actors/players A bench of aldermen A conflagration of arsonists A troupe of artistes A team of athletes B A tabernacle of bakers A babble of barbers A promise of barmen A thought of barons A squad of beaters A bevy/galaxy of beauties A bench/psalter of bishops A blush of boys A troop of boy scouts A feast of brewers A pack of brownies A shuffle of bureaucrats A goring of butchers A sneer of butlers C A slate of candidates A chapter/dignity of canons A company/syndicate of capit

THE NOUN: KINDS OF NOUNS   A Noun is a word used as the name of a person, place or thing. Note: The word thing is used to mean anything that we can think of. Examples: The house is old. A king was here. Virtue is its own reward . Accidents will happen.   Look at the following sentence: Asoka was a wise king. The noun Asoka refers to a particular king, but the noun king might be applied to any other king as well as to Asoka. We call Asoka a Proper Noun, and king a Common Noun. Similarly: Sita is a Proper Noun, while girl is a Common Noun. Hart is a Proper Noun, while boy is a Common Noun. Kolkata is a Proper Noun, while city is a Common Noun. India is a Proper Noun, while country is a Common Noun. The word girl is a Common Noun, because it is a name common to all girls, while Sita is a Proper Noun because it is the name of a particular girl. Defination : - A Common Noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same cla