Question

1) A___of birdies. 2)A___of ships 3)A____of bandits. Fill in the blanks with a collective noun.

Answer 1

1 flock
2 fleet
3 gunde

Answer 2

Answer:

1. A flock of birdies.

2. A fleet of ships.

3. A gang of bandits.

Explanation:

A collective noun represents a collection or a group of something. It stands for a group of 'countable nouns' to represent one group.

The collective noun is a subset of 'countable nouns' which 'can be counted' in numbers or can be quantified in size. We have countable or uncountable nouns, mass nouns, nouns that 'cannot be counted' such as liquid, education.    

Then we have the collective noun that has a group representation as a single collective unit - examples: fleet, flock, bunch.

Besides this, we have separate collective noun to identify different groups for different types of animals, birds or insects. Examples: beehives, a colony of ants, a herd of elephants, the brood of chickens.