Collective and Compound Nouns

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Collective and Compound Nouns

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• A collective noun refers to a group of people,
  animals, or things.
• Crowd
• Audience
• Bunch
• Group
• Class
• Flock
• Team

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Which nouns are collective?

1. Our class went on a field trip to Colonial
   Williamsburg in May.
2. I was excited because no on in my family had ever
   been there.
3. A committee of students and teachers planned the
   trip.
4. There were forty students and five teachers in
   our group.
5. We now have an interesting collection of
   photographs.

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Compound Nouns

• Two or more words used as a single noun are
  called a compound noun.
• A compound noun is written either as one word, as
  separate words, or as hyphenated words.
• Newspaper
• New Years Day
• Son-in-law

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• 6. On our field trip to Colonial Williamsburg, we
  saw guides dressed like colonists.
• 7. The Governors Palace is a storehouse of
  antiques.
• 8. A footpath led us to the stores of several
  shopkeepers.
• 9. A wig maker and a candle maker displayed their
  crafts.
• 10. My great-uncle wrote a story about the
  Virginia Colony.

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Write these sentences. Underline the collective
nouns once and the compound nouns twice.

• 11. Hampton Roads is one of the largest seaports
  in the United States.
• 12. Here three waterways meet the Chesapeake Bay.
• 13. Our class bought post cards of James River
  Bridge.
• 14. My brother-in-law took us on a tour of a
  large shipyard in the city of Newport News.
• 15. Shipbuilding is not just for the military.
• 16. A crew of workers built a passenger liner
  called the United States.
• 17. A tugboat leading it out had the right of
  way.