Examples of Collective Nouns
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Collective Nouns Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people or things. Words like group, herd, and array are collective noun examples. Here, we’ll take a closer look at collective nouns, and provide even more examples, placing them in context so you can gain a greater understanding of how they work.
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Nouns that are plural in English but singular in French, and vice versa In English, what we call collective nouns (e.g. family, team, police, company, ...) can be followed by a verb either in singular or plural form, depending on whether we consider the group as a single unit (singular), or as the individuals forming the group (plural). However, these collective nouns are always followed by singular in French. Plural where singular in English. Note that words such as ''holiday'' (vacances) and ''hair'' (cheveux) are always plural in French. The adjectives or verbs following them are also in plural form.
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Collective Nouns: Singular or Plural? A collective noun refers to a group of people or things. Group, for example, is a collective noun. Legal writers often have to deal with collective nouns, and here are some of the most common: board, council, court, faculty, government, jury, majority, panel, and staff. When using collective nouns, writers occasionally face questions of subject-verb agreement and pronoun agreement. This post addresses both. Subject-verb agreement. The key question is whether to treat collective nouns as singular or plural. Should we write the jury is or the jury are? Although a jury, like all collective nouns, is a group of individuals, the better practice is to treat collective nouns as singular and to write the jury is, as well as the council decides, the panel hears, and so on.
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The Collective Noun There is one group of animals, but the members of that group are all doing their own thing. Members of collective nouns can behave in a similar fashion. When the members are acting as individuals, the collective noun is plural and requires plural verbs and pronouns.
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- Of course a collective noun can be pluralized: You can say, Of the three audiences we have had at our concerts, one audience booed us off the stage and two audiences threw rocks.. Just like committee is a collective noun, but it's quite reasonable to say, Two new committees were formed yesterday..
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What Are Collective Nouns? Keep that alone-in-a-crowd, singular idea in mind as we think about the topic of this lesson: collective nouns. A collective noun is a noun that names a group of people or things. Examples of collective nouns are: band. class. company. family. government. jury. organization. and . team
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Collective Nouns in the English Language, continued Collective nouns denote a group, or collection, of people or things (Casell 45). If they refer to physical things it is easier to decide about verb form that follows them, because these nouns can be either singular or plural – at least most of them. Examples of singular collective nouns. Litter, luggage. The verb that follows nouns litter and luggage must be in singular form.
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- Uncountable Nouns. Nouns | Abstract Nouns | Collective Nouns | Common Nouns | Compound Nouns | Concrete Nouns. Countable / Uncountable Nouns | Gerund Nouns | Predicate Nouns | Proper Nouns. Uncountable nouns (also called mass nouns or noncount nouns) cannot be counted, they are not treated as seperate objects. For example:
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The Collective Noun Use correct verbs and pronouns with collective nouns. Each noun from the list above is a single thing. That thing, however, is made up of more than one person. You cannot have a committee, team, or family of one; you need at least two people to compose the unit.
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What Are Collective Nouns? (with Examples) A collective noun is the word used to represent a group of people, animals, or things. Here are some examples of collective nouns: There are lots of collective nouns. Below are some examples of the most common ones.ords used to describe a specific group of things (usually animals) are called terms of venery. They are also collective nouns. Examples: USING THE WRONG COLLECTIVE NOUN: A USEFUL LITERARY TECHNIQUE. Some collective nouns are quite versatile. For example, you can say: The most versatile collective noun is group.
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Collective Noun A noun (such as team, committee, or family) that refers to a group of individuals. In American English, collective nouns usually take singular verb forms. Collective nouns can be replaced by both singular and plural pronouns, depending on their meaning.
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collective noun The collective noun number, when preceded by a, is treated as a plural: A number of solutions were suggested. When preceded by the, it is treated as a singular: The number of solutions offered was astounding. Other common collective nouns are class, crowd, flock, panel, committee, group, audience, staff, and family.
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- 1 In 'safety barrier', the noun 'safety' is being used as a modifier. 2  In this dictionary the word 'noun' is represented by the letter n. 3  Examples of proper nouns in English are Joseph, Vienna and the White House. ' Family' and 'flock' are examples of collective nouns.
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NOUN collective noun - a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things mass noun - a noun that does not form plurals count noun - a noun that forms plurals
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Collective Noun Collective Noun. Definition of Collective Noun. The term collective noun denotes a group of objects, people, animals, or ideas as a single concept, or a single thing. Though a collective noun is not a single person or thing in a group, it is considered as a single idea, entity, or thing.
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Kinds of Nouns: Exercise Say whether the italicized nouns are common, proper, collective or abstract. 1. Honesty is the best policy.
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noun Noun. 1. collective noun-a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things. noun-a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action.
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- into 3 classes, i.e. abstract, individual, and collective nouns. a) An abstract noun, which belongs to uncountable nouns, is a word used to name. an idea, activiy, action, a quality, or state which is “considered apart from the. object to which it belongs” (Wren & Martin, 2000:6), for example of this noun. category is kindness, theft, boyhood, and grammar.
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Talk:Collective noun A user is repeatedly censoring the collective noun of birds on some pages, at least Lark and Raven. Editors of collective nouns may be interested in chiming in about what I see as unilateral and unencyclopedian vandalism. Issue commented with diffs at User_talk:Jimfbleak#Your_vandalism_on_Raven_and_Lark.
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- If the collective noun (staff) is acting as a single unit, use the singular verb: “The staff is very efficient.”. If the collective noun is meant to highlight the actions of discrete individuals who are all doing different things, use the plural verb: “The staff are working on many projects for the holiday party.”.
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Collective Nouns Examples of Collective Nouns. The singular verb and pronoun form is used is if they are acting in unison. For example: The class listens [singular verb form] carefully to its [singular pronoun] teacher’s instructions. (Here the class is a unit acting together as one.
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collective noun Collective nouns are usually used with singular verbs: the family is on holiday; General Motors is mounting a big sales campaign. In British usage, however, plural verbs are sometimes employed in this context, esp when reference is being made to a collection of individual objects or people rather than to the group as a unit: the family are all on holiday.
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- (plural collective nouns). ( 1 grammar) A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals. 2  Link/Cite. 3  Home. 4  Dictionary Definitions. 5  collective noun.
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- Here we have listed some of the more commonly used collective nouns for humans, animals and objects. These collective nouns are commonly used under the category of people. 1  A class of students. 2  An army of soldiers. 3  A choir of singers. 4  A crew of sailors.  A band of musicians.