Buffyyour study buddyHi! Ask me about collective nouns — a herd, a flock, a swarm, a pride — or the lesson "Animals, Birds and Dr. Dolittle".
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One special noun can name a whole group of animals — a herd, a flock, a swarm. Tap the words below to reveal which animals each collective noun describes, then meet them in the lesson "Animals, Birds and Dr. Dolittle" in your Poorvi reader.
Play with it
One word can name a whole group of animals. Tap a collective noun to reveal which animals it describes — and see it used in a sentence.
Learn
A collective noun is a single word that names a whole group of people, animals or things.
One word stands for many — that is what makes a collective noun so handy. Use the explorer above to collect the ones used for animals.
Different animals have their own special group words:
Worked example. A group of lions is called a ___?
The collective noun for lions is a pride — so we say "a pride of lions". (A group of wolves, by contrast, would be a pack.)
Collective nouns are not only for animals — they name groups of things and people too:
Notice how each group has its own word — say a bunch of grapes, not a herd of grapes! The right collective noun makes your sentence sound just right.
Where you'll meet it
Saying "a pride of lions" or "a swarm of bees" instead of just "a group" makes your essays and stories sharp and vivid — exactly the kind of precise word choice that earns marks in writing.
Collective nouns let you talk about many things at once in one neat word. Whether you describe a flock of birds or a fleet of ships, the right group word makes your meaning instantly clear.
Check yourself
Modelled on the competency-based pattern — matching each group to its collective noun, an assertion–reason and a case study — testing whether you can use the ideas, not just recall them.
Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). The example words are original practice content; the lesson Animals, Birds and Dr. Dolittle is in the NCERT Class 7 English reader, Poorvi (ncert.nic.in).
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