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Today I want to teach you about collective nouns.

But first, what are collective nouns?

They are words we used to talk about a group of things or people as one unit.

For example, instead of saying many trees together, we say a forest.

Easy, right?

We humans love shortcuts.

It's much faster to say a flock of birds than a lot of birds flying together.

There's another collective noun that's similar.

Band. A band can be a group of musicians, fighters, or even thieves.

So if someone says, I saw a band in the park, do they mean musicians, or maybe a gang of thieves? Some collective nouns sound very poetic.

Did you know a group of stars in the sky is called a constellation

and a group of islands is called an archipelago?

Pretty cool, right? But not all collective nouns sound nice and friendly.

If someone says, there's a pack nearby, you'd better be careful.

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