Therefore, deliberately using the wrong collective noun could add a useful connotation. For example: a pack of ships (This gives the idea of ships hunting like wolves or thieves. It brings pirates to mind.) a forest of soldiers (This gives the idea of thousands of stationary soldiers ...
The term ‘a gam of porpoises’ derives from the word gam being both a collective noun used also of whales as well as a nautical term for a social gathering of two or more whaleships at sea when, after hailing each other, they exchange visits by the boats' crews. Their other collective...
Pack: a group of animals, such as dogs or wolves Crowd: a large group of people Bunch: an informal term for a group of items or people Set: a collection of similar items Committee: a group of decision-makers Pair: two similar items or persons Specific Collective Nouns There are also ve...
Collective noun is the name we give to a group of nouns to refer to them as one entity. The most common method of doing this is by using words like group or bunch that can be applicable to most of the nouns in the language today. But there are some specific names given for certain ...
they are all acting as a harmonious unit as they eat grass. In the second sentence, the sheep are panicking, and it is every sheep for themself as they run away. If the second sentence instead used a singular noun, the sentence would mean that the sheep all collectively ran in the same...
A pack of wolves (-MG3-) A pad of (sheets of) paper (-submitted by Jason Harris, harrij1@weiss.che.utexas.edu-) A paddling of ducks (while swimming. -CCW2-) A pail of wasps (-suggested by RP4-) A pair of horses A palm of wankers (-suggested by Adrian de Bear, adebear@spir...