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	The Noun
		Nouns have different classes: proper and common, concrete and abstract, count and noncount, and collective.
		Collective nouns are especially tricky when you are trying to make verbs and pronouns agree with them.
		The reason is that collective nouns can be singular or plural, depending on the behavior of the members of the group.
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/noun.htm (548 words)

	Collective noun
		Many of these original collective nouns are archaic: a "harass of horses" doesn't seem to have been used much since the 1400s.
		Some alternatives for collective nouns can be clearly traced to the evolution of pronunciation in different areas (hence a "parcel of hogs" and a "passel of hogs").
		The all-time champion collective noun is "set", for it can legitimately be used as a collective noun for a vast number of concepts (a set of ideals, plans, ambitions, principles, objectives, mathematical objects, etc) or inanimate (typically manufactured) objects (knives, spoons, keys, dinnerware, manuals, etc).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Collective_noun.html (775 words)

	What is a Noun?
		Countable nouns are the opposite of non-countable nouns and collective nouns.
		A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
		A collective noun is similar to a non-countable noun, and is roughly the opposite of a countable noun.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html (1986 words)

	What is a Noun?
		Countable nouns are the opposite of non-countable nouns and collective nouns.
		A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
		A collective noun is similar to a non-countable noun, and is roughly the opposite of a countable noun.
	www.arts.uottawa.ca /writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html (1986 words)

	The Collective Noun
		Use correct verbs and pronouns with collective nouns.
		When the members are acting as individuals, the collective noun is plural and requires plural verbs and pronouns.
		Whenever you cannot decide if a collective noun is singular or plural, exercise your options as a writer.
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/collectivenoun.htm (500 words)

	collective noun definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		noun representing group as unit: a noun that refers to a group of people or things considered as a single unit.
		Examples of collective nouns are audience, committee, crowd, flock, government, jury, and orchestra, all of which are singular in form but plural in that they refer to groups that are made up of a number of individuals or individual things.
		Nouns that denote a class of objects, for example, furniture and luggage, are always singular: My luggage is missing.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861687967 (256 words)

	Grammar_Nouns
		A noun is described as being either (1) a proper noun, (2) a common noun, or (3) a collective noun.
		A collective noun is considered singular when it refers to a group as an entire unit (band, class, family, team) and plural when it refers to the individual members within the group.
		Unlike most nouns and pronouns, which change form to indicate their number, the form of many collective nouns remains unchanged regardless of reference to number, i.e., whether the collective noun refers to the entire group as a single unit (the singular sense) or, rather, emphasizes the individuals within the group (the plural sense).
	www.geocities.com /muslowords/Grammar_Nouns.html (1863 words)

	Noun Information
		A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase.
		Some words function in the singular as a count noun and, without a change in the spelling, as a mass noun in the plural: she caught a fish, we caught fish; he shot a deer, they shot some deer; the craft was dilapidated, the pier was chockablock with craft.
		Noun phrases can be replaced by pronouns, such as "he", "me", "which", and "those", in order to avoid repetition or explicit identification, or for other reasons.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Noun (970 words)

	Collective noun - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery, veneral nouns or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts.
		For example, in the phrase "a parliament of owls", parliament is a collective noun.
		Likewise, "flock" is a generic collective noun for all sorts of flying birds and also for sheep.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/o/l/Collective_noun.html (859 words)

	Learn English Free and Fast - Collective / Group Nouns
		A collective noun is a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things.
		When such a group is considered as a single unit, the collective noun is used with a singular verb and singular pronouns.
		A determiner in front of a singular collective noun is always singular: this committee, never these committee (but of course when the collective noun is pluralized, it takes a plural determiner: these committees).
	www.zozanga.com /grammar/nouncollective.htm (219 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for noun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NOUN A PART OF SPEECH or WORD CLASS typically used in a variety of sentence functions such as subject and object, generally in combination with the definite or indefinite article and modifiers and traditionally regarded as ‘naming’ or identifying persons and things.Form In English,...
		A NOUN referring to a group of people, animals, or things, and occurring in the singular with a singular or plural verb: army, couple, family, government, group.
		a noun denoting something that cannot be counted (e.g., a substance or quality), usually a noun that lacks a plural in ordinary usage and is not used with the indefinite article, e.g., luggage, china, happiness.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=noun (927 words)

	Noun - Wikinfo
		A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality.
		The meaning of a proper noun, outside of what it references, is frequently arbitrary or irrelevant (for example, someone might be named Tiger Smith despite being neither a tiger nor a smith).
		A mass noun is a type of common noun that represents a substance not easily quantified by a number.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Noun (2164 words)

	collective noun
		collective noun (substantiv med kollektiv betydning): a noun which refers to a group of people, e.g.
		A particular feature of collective nouns is that they may occur with plural verbs and co-referential pronouns and determiners, even when the noun has singular form.
		The use of plural verbs with collective nouns occurs mainly in British English, while both American and British English may use plural pronouns to refer back to a collective noun.
	www.novalearn.com /grammar-glossary/collective-noun.htm (138 words)

	collective - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
		Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
		Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit.
	dict.die.net /collective (112 words)

	Collective Nouns
		Collective nouns are singular in form but indicate a collection or group of things or people.
		Collective nouns can take singular or plural verbs, depending on the meaning or context.
		When using a collective noun as one unit, use a singular verb.
	www.sabri.org /CollectiveNouns.htm (283 words)

	Collective Nouns - English Grammar
		Collective nouns are nouns that refer to things or people as a unit.
		Collective nouns can be used in both the singular form and the plural form.
		Singular collective nouns are used like singular nouns.
	www.english-the-easy-way.com /Nouns/Collective_Nouns.htm (85 words)

	20th WCP: The Structure of Chinese Language and Ontological Insights: A Collective-Noun Hypothesis*
		In contrast to those typical common nouns, the so-called count nouns like 'person' and 'horse', in Indo-European languages such as Greek and English, the syntax of Chinese nouns appears strikingly similar to the syntax of those uncountable nouns either 'collective nouns' (such as 'people', 'cattle' and 'police') or 'mass nouns' (such as 'water' and 'snow').
		For, when they stand alone, collective nouns and mass nouns are not supposed to stand for countable individuals but for a whole, either a collection-whole or a mass-whole.
		For the model directly regards a noun as denoting a collection-whole of individual things and takes the case of the mass noun to be a special case: it denotes a collection of one single inseparable and interpenetrating stuff.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Comp/CompMou.htm (4206 words)

	GrammarCheck
		When the group to which it refers acts as one unit, the collective noun takes a singular verb and may be referred to by a singular pronoun.
		When the members of a group act independently, the collective noun takes a plural verb and may be referred to by a plural pronoun.
		Collective nouns are tricky, so consult your handbook when in doubt.
	www.grammarcheck.com /archives/08-2005.htm (2675 words)

	Life With Alacrity: Systems for Collective Choice
		However, as we bring collective choice systems onto the Internet, quantifying and programming them, we discover the need to be more analytical and more methodical in the techniques used.
		After polls are collected, the anonymous results--or at least a summary of those results--are shared with the participants, who then poll again.
		Life with Alacrity has an excellent post on collective choice, covering various choice domains as well as options among them, and even a discussion of how to game them (of course, rigged voting is obvious, but some of the other systems need to be studi...
	www.lifewithalacrity.com /2005/12/systems_for_col.html (4710 words)

	§ 20. collective noun. 1. Grammar. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		Some nouns, like committee, clergy, enemy, group, family, and team, refer to a group but are singular in form.
		In American usage, a collective noun takes a singular verb when it refers to the collection considered as a whole, as in The family was united on this question or The enemy is suing for peace.
		Be careful not to treat a collective noun as both singular and plural in the same construction.
	www.bartleby.com /64/C001/020.html (283 words)

	Nouns
		A noun is a word used to name a person, place or thing.
		Nouns name items that can be seen, and they also name ideas, feelings and beliefs.
		A fourth kind of compound noun is a proper name that consists of more than one word.
	www.yorku.ca /gcareers/grammar/nouns.htm (417 words)

	collective noun: definition, usage and pronunciation - YourDictionary.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Usage Note: In American usage, a collective noun takes a singular verb when it refers to the collection considered as a whole, as in The family was united on this question.
		A collective noun should not be treated as both singular and plural in the same construction; thus The family is determined to press its (not their) claim.
		Among the common collective nouns are committee, clergy, company, enemy, group, family, flock, public, and team.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/c/c0478800.html (168 words)

	Sentence Agreement: Collective Nouns — FactMonster.com
		For purposes of agreement, collective nouns can be singular or plural, depending on how they are used in a sentence.
		Collective nouns used as one unit take a singular verb; collective nouns that indicate many units take a plural verb.
		A collective noun is treated as plural when the group it names is considered to be made up of individuals.
	www.factmonster.com /cig/grammar-style/collective-nouns.html (318 words)

	Subject-Verb Agreement: Collective Nouns
		Collective nouns, such as family, majority, audience, and committee are singular when they act in a collective fashion or represent one group.
		Collective nouns will usually be singular in Sentence Correction sentences.
		Again, the confusing noun is referred to as a singular group: even though a flock comprises many birds, we're not talking about each bird's direction of flight, but the direction of the flock as a whole.
	www.800score.com /content/guidec4view1V1c.html (435 words)

	Collective Nouns
		Committee is a collective noun, just like jury, flock, herd, class, choir, team, family, and other words that refer to a single unit consisting of more than one person or thing.
		In American English (British English differs on this issue, as it does on many others), collective nouns can be either singular or plural, depending on how the group is being spoken of in the sentence.
		In such cases, it would be illogical to refer to the collective noun as a singular.
	www.getitwriteonline.com /archive/061101.htm (541 words)

	noun - Webled.com
		If the noun is modified by an adjective, the choice between a and an depends on the ]...
		[ A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you ]...
		[ In this sentence the possessive noun "squirrels"' is used to modify the noun "nest" and the noun phrase "the squirrels' ]...
	www.webled.com /noun.htm (484 words)

	LILT:Countable, mass and collective noun
		The appropriate use of determiners depends on the classification of nouns into countable, mass and collective nouns.
		Some nouns can be thought of as either countable or mass nouns.
		Collective nouns like ‘team’, ‘government’ and ‘party’ were traditionally thought of as being
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLang/LILT/cm&colnoun.htm (177 words)

	LILT:Countable, mass and collective noun
		The appropriate use of determiners depends on the classification of nouns into countable, mass and collective nouns.
		Some nouns can be thought of as either countable or mass nouns.
		Collective nouns like ‘team’, ‘government’ and ‘party’ were traditionally thought of as being
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLang/LILT/cm&colnoun.htm (177 words)

	Collective Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Collective nouns are the words used to define a group of people, animals or inanimate things.
		For example, in the phrase a "flock of geese" or a " pride of lions", flock and pride are collective nouns.
		Remember that Collective nouns are the words used to define a group of people, animals or inanimate things.
	www.examples-help.org.uk /parts-of-speech/collective-nouns.htm (237 words)

	Collective nouns - grammar - central - British Council - LearnEnglish
		A collective noun is a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit.
		A collective noun should not be treated as both singular and plural in the same construction; thus:
		Plural forms are common when the group is considered as a collection of people doing personal things like deciding, hoping or wanting; and in these cases we use who, not which, as a relative pronoun.
	www.britishcouncil.org /learnenglish-central-grammar-collective-nouns.htm (470 words)

	Activities for: Herd of Cows, Flock of Sheep
		As you read each collective noun, kids write the collective noun down in one of the blank squares on their grid.
		Players keep shouting out collective nouns and tossing the beanbag until someone can't think of a collective noun, repeats a collective noun, or shouts out something that is not a collective noun.
		If they repeat a collective noun, can't think of a collective noun, or say something that is not a collective noun, then they are out and sit down.
	www.rickwalton.com /curricul/acherdco.htm (703 words)

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