When I was at school, a few years ago than I care to remember, we used to have a test on collective nouns seemingly every week, but then again my memory might be failing.
The Questions would be to fill in the missing gap
- A ............. of sheep (Flock)
- A herd of ........... (Cows)
- A ............. of bees (Swarm)
- A Pack of .......... (Dogs)
- A Murder of ....Crows...............
- A ....Gang......... of Elk
- A String of ....Racehorses.....................
- A Mob of ......Kangaroos.............
- A ....drift ..........of Hogs
- A Leap of .....Leopards.....................
- A ....Richness ........... of Martens
- A Bevy of ..Otters.......................
- A ....Span........... of Oxen
- A ....Crash.......... of Rhinocerouses
- An ...Ambush.......... of Tigers
- A Marvel of ...Unicorns..................
All are mammals (this time).... maybe my next one will be a different species.
7 comments:
WOW, I was just going to do a post about this myself.
I have a list of collective nouns off the computer. I was going to print them.You beat me to it!!!
xxx
I think I've got some of them:
1. crows
2. ?
3. ponies
4. people,animals,kangeroos
5. passel
6. hares
7. richness
8. ?
9. span
10. ?
11. ?
12. ?
Got these from my list!!
ahhh,
11. streak
(hehe)
I am enjoying this - thanks Annette for giving me the idea as well, perhaps you could do the one on birds or something else?
Sage
I have only found 2 Annette - to your question.
1) a camp
2) a languid languish
and these were the politer ones :-)
xx
Sage
1. Innocents
2. Convent
3. Sausages
4. Italians
5. Hooters Bar [of]
6. Faith healers
7. House
8. Beers
9. Barbershop
10. Stadium
11. Ann Summers' night
12. Ingenuity
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