Last week, we looked at a lot of collective nouns, but there are still more to learn,

and some of them might really surprise you.

These fun words make English more interesting and easier to speak.

In the last episode, we talked about group of animals, trees, and even ships.

But what about buildings and people? Let's find out today.

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Okay, let's start. When we talk about houses together, we say town if it's small,

and city if it's bigger. But if those houses are organized in a somewhat chaotic way, you might hear about a slum

or a shanty town. If we focus on buildings in general, a group of them can be from a residential complex, and if there are many homes in one

place, we talk about a neighborhood or even a housing development. By the way, when a place is full of

people, English has some useful words. For example, if a subway is very crowded at 8 in the morning, we can call it a crowd. If the people are loud or acting wild, we can even say it's a mob.

Now let's move on to the world of sports.

In the previous episode, I mentioned team as a group of people at work,

but in sports, it's a group competing together.

This applies to soccer, basketball, and practically any sport with teammates.

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