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Because people behave as both herd animals and solitary creatures, collective nouns can be either singular or plural, depending on context. In writing, this double status often causes agreement errors. How do you tell if a collective noun is singular or plural?
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Get Grammar Girl's take on collective nouns. Learn whether collective nouns take plural verbs or singular verbs. ... Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, There are around 200 collective nouns in the English language (1). Sometimes they take a singular verb, but other times they take a plural ... Related Grammar Girl Episodes...
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See the latest answer to your grammar questions, brief explanations of common grammar points, previous answers or play grammar games ... In British usage, however, collective nouns are more often treated as plurals:
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Grammar Chat Sponsors ... These collective nouns are often uncountable. ... Nouns | Abstract Nouns | Common Nouns | Compound Nouns | Concrete Nouns; Countable / Uncountable Nouns | Gerund Nouns | Predicate Nouns | Proper Nouns...
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Collective noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects, where "objects" can be people, animals, emotions, inanimate things, concepts, or other things. For example, in the phra...
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Collective nouns are nouns that refer to things or people as a unit. Examples: family, police, class, team, crew etc. ... Collective nouns can be used in both the singular form and the plural form.
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Collective Nouns - Definition of 'Collective Nouns' from our glossary of English linguistic and grammatical terms containing explanations and cross-references to other relevant English grammar terms. ... Browse the following links to other content related to 'Collective Nouns' from the 'Nouns' grammar category...
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Examples of collective nouns are: ... ; Be careful when using collective nouns with pronouns. ... The Collective Noun (from Grammar Bytes)
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Grammar and Style » General Reference » Collective Nouns ... Collective Nouns Explained - From Write101.Com ... Tricks About Collective Nouns - From the University of Colorado...
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The topic is singular collective nouns. I am driven to the point of madness every morning when I listen to my local rock station, because the DJ insists on referring to bands whose names would be a singular collective noun in a plural sense. For example, ... grammar collective nouns // July 23, 2008 at 2:10 am | Reply...
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