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Collective noun

Imagine you have 5 toy cars. When you talk about all of these cars together, you can call them a "collection" of toy cars. This means that they belong together and are a group.

In regular words, this is like when you have a bunch of things that belong together and you give them a name!

The special name you give to a group of things is called a "collective noun". For example, a group of cows can be called a "herd". This helps us talk about them more easily and understand the type of animals or things we are talking about.

So, a collective noun is just a special name given to a group of things that belong together!
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