Groups of things
When we talk of collective nouns we are referring to a collection of things that are taken as a whole. In everyday speech, we use words that are not specific to one kind of thing. For example, the collective noun ‘group’ can refer to anything – people, dogs, cats and so on.
But when we want to be specific we say, a herd of cattle, a congress of monkeys, a parliament of owls and so on.
Now try your hand at this crossword and see how many of these groups you can find.