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| Compound and Collective Nouns |
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| Two or more words that are written as one noun are considered collective. Collective nouns can be written as seperate words, hyphenated, or as one word. |
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| Nouns that name a group of people, things, or places are collective. |
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| Examples of compound nouns: |
| seafood grasshopper brother-in-law |
| Iceland twelve-year-old New Year's Day |
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| Examples of collective nouns: |
| group committee team |
| orchestra herd union |
| Example sentences using compound nouns: |
| 1. Did you see how high that grasshopper jumped? 2. The one-year-old was just beginning to walk. 3. My family is going to Iceland for the summer. |
| Example sentences using collective nouns: |
| 1. The herd of buffalo passed over the field. 2. I want to join the yearbook committee. 3. Jessica is a forward on her soccer team. |
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