Grammar

Let's review collective nouns.

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grammar giraffe audio button Collective nouns can be used to identify a group of people, places, or things.

Now it's time to play a game!

To see how to play, click the Directions button. To play the game, click the Begin button. In this game, read the sentences. Then in the space provided on the right, type in the appropriate collective noun.

Collective nouns can be used to identify a group of people, places, or things.

What collective noun can be used for the underlined words?

Sentence

Collective Noun

She has 52 cards in a box.

deck

Look at the 6 lions sitting together.

pride

I can eat 4 pancakes on top of each other.

stack

9 people waited in line for tickets.

group

Don't run from the hundreds of bees.

swarm

Wow, great job!

You got all of them right!

Cluck, cluck.

Change any answers with X's and try again.

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Question

Rewrite the sentence using a collective noun. The hundreds of papers on top of each other blew all around the room.

The stack of paper blew around the room.