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Apr 2025
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#333 Collective Nouns - Learn English wi...

Georgiana, founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com
About this episode

Today, I want to teach you about collective nouns.

But first… what are collective nouns?
They are words we use to talk about a group of things or people as one unit. For example:

Instead of saying “many trees together,” we say a forest.

Easy, right?

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