Music – Musical instruments, sections of an orchestra, nouns referring to music.Food – Breads, Cereals, Confections, Dairy, Drink, Fruits, Fungi, Legumes, Meats, Nuts, Soups, Spices, and Vegetable.Finance – refers to nouns in the world of banking and finance.Concrete nouns represent something physical that can be experienced through the sensesĬommon nouns that could be grouped into additional categories include:.Normally uncountable nouns are used in the singular tense and one cannot use “a” or “an” with them. Uncountable nouns – can be thought of as a collective within a subset of collective nouns.Countable nouns – are able to be shown with a number.Abstract nouns – refer to things that are not concrete refer to emotions, ideas, concepts, traits, experiences, or a state of being.Inanimate Common Nouns – I have attempted to categorize these as: In cases were nouns were too generalized or if there were a very large grouping of like nouns, I move up or down in the classification system to include either a Phylum, Superclass, Class, or a Clade. Wherever possible, I have tried to categorize these using the scientific classification system using Class – Order – (Family) if possible. Living Organisms (Plants, Animals, Bacterium, Fungi, etc.) A Note About the Categorization of Collective Nouns I also wanted to see how collective nouns changed over time and how they were categorized or grouped. I could never find large complete listings of collective nouns.
The short answer, again, is that I kept looking around for a comprehensive listing of as many collective nouns as possible, and I kept finding elementary and rudimentary listings. While some languages, such as Spanish, French, and German, are ruled by committee there is no academy or governing body that decides on how English should evolve.” Why did you do this? Who decides on the right collective noun for something?Īs per the OxfordWords Website: “The short answer is no one. Words like group, herd, and array are collective noun examples.Ĭollective nouns have been an important part of English grammar for centuries, and the assembly of collective nouns began in the 1400s as printed materials become widely available and literacy rates among people began to climb. Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people or things. A noun that denotes a group of individuals (e.g., assembly, family, crew ).
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