Unit 2 Lesson 2: Collective and compound nouns Page 73
Collective Nouns A collective noun refers to a group of people, animals, or things. A crowd of students flocked to the auditorium. Audience, class, committee, band, cluster, family, bunch, flock, batch, group, team, litter
“Try it out” page 73 1-5 Please do them in your notes.
Compound Nouns Two or more words used as a single noun are called compound nouns. A compound noun is written either as one word, as separate words, or as hyphenated words. Examples: newspaper, grandfather, Newfoundland New Year’s Day, Hong Kong, truck driver Marie-Dolores, son-in-law, make-up
Try 6-10 on page 74
Great, now please do 11-17 on page 75 They are due before our next grammar period. Remember: a collective noun names persons, animals, or things that act together as a group. A compound noun is made up of two or more words acting as a single noun.