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	Did You Know?: Collective Nouns for Fish - What Group of Fish are Called
		Collective nouns are words that denote a collection (grouping) of people, animals, objects or concepts as a unit.
		In the English language, there are so many different collective nouns (group nouns) for mostly everything both living and non-living that there are even multiple collective names for most of them.
		There are several different specie of fish and the English language provides group names (collective nouns) for each specie of fish in a group.
	www.myuniversalfacts.com /2006/08/collective-nouns-for-fish-what-group.html (599 words)

	Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts. Edward Sapir. 1921. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
		A “farmer” is in one sense a perfectly unified concept, in another he is “one who farms.” The concept conveyed by the radical element (farm-) is not one of personality at all but of an industrial activity (to farm), itself based on the concept of a particular type of object (a farm).
		The three concrete concepts—two objects and an action—are each directly expressed by a monosyllabic word which is at the same time a radical element; the two relational concepts—“subject” and “object”—are expressed solely by the position of the concrete words before and after the word of action.
		Concepts II and III are both common, but not essential; particularly group III, which represents, in effect, a psychological and formal confusion of types II and IV or of types I and IV, is an avoidable class of concepts.
	www.bartleby.com /186/5.html (9512 words)

	noun Information Center - collective nouns
		The list of common nouns meaning of a proper noun, outside of what it references, is frequently arbitrary or irrelevant concrete nouns (for example, someone might be named Tiger Smith despite being collective nouns neither a tiger nor a smith).
		Mass nouns like "furniture" or "cutlery", which represent noun activities more easily quantified substances, lesson plans on nouns show that the mass/count distinction should be thought of types of nouns as pertaining to the expressions themselves, rather than to the substances they represent.
		Some words function in the singular as a count noun and, without a change in examples of abstract nouns the spelling, as a mass noun free noun worksheets in the plural: she caught a fish, we caught fish; he shot a deer, they shot deer; the craft was dilapidated, the pier was chockablock with craft.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_N_-_P/noun.html (896 words)

	enlightenment: IOE, Chapter Seven
		Concepts are open-ended, ie, they are repositories for all the knowledge pertaining to their referents, including the yet-to-be-discovered.
		Concepts are static in that their referents are fixed: the existents subsumed by a concept never changes from discovery to death, or even from generation to generation.
		The theory that concepts function as open-ended repositories of knowledge is an important discovery of Rand's, a discovery whose importance is often overlooked in favor of her theory of measurement omission.
	enlightenment.supersaturated.com /essays/text/ioe1/07.html (2400 words)

	Wikinfo \| Noun
		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 (710 words)

	Foreword to the Dictionary of Number Words
		Another problem encountered is the distinction between a number of persons or objects (an integer number) and a continuous quantity (a real number.) In the English language, we distinguish among count nouns, mass nouns, and collective nouns.
		Collective nouns refer to groups of persons or objects such as "family," "herd," "staff," and "class." Collective nouns have both a singular and a plural form, e.g.
		The term "number" is usually used with count and collective nouns, while the terms "amount" or "quantity" are usually used with mass nouns.
	home.comcast.net /~igpl/NWF.html (465 words)

	SILEBR 2005/013 — Review of “The Noun Phrase” (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This volume is a typological survey of morphosyntactic phenomena occurring within the noun phrase based primarily on a sample of fifty-two languages that were selected on the basis of maximal genetic diversity.
		Thus noun phrases headed by pronouns, collectives, mass nouns, and various types of abstract nouns are excluded from his study.
		Non-integral noun phrases correspond to phenomena that are elsewhere described under the rubric of non-configurational, scrambled, or flat structure.
	www.sil.org:8090 /silebr/2005/silebr2005-013 (1816 words)

	Collectible card game (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first widely-known collectible card game was Magic: The Gathering designed by Richard Garfield and published by Wizards of the Coast in 1993.
		Most collectible card games are distributed as packs containing a subset of the available much like trading cards.
		While appearing to be merely a checklist and resource for collectors attempting to catalog their collections of cards for various collectible card games, the many and varied types of information provided in Miller and Greenholdt's encyclopedic volume actu...
	www.freeglossary.com /Collectible_card_game (1191 words)

	nouns page need help - A to Z Teacher Stuff Forums
		You have to be really careful when the collective noun is followed by a prepositional phrase, because the tendency is to use the object of the preposition as the antecedent of the pronoun, or for number.
		"ducks" is the object of the preposition, not the subject, and not the antecedent.
		Collective nouns are one of the FUNNEST parts of it.
	forums.atozteacherstuff.com /showthread.php?t=14808 (1177 words)

	Object (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		In this remark, a certain extremely general, topic-neutral use of ‘object’ is singled out, a use in which the expression is treated as equivalent to (equally neutral) uses of ‘term’, ‘entity’, ‘unit’, ‘individual’, and ‘thing’.
		On this approach, the concept of the many, or the use of plural expressions, calls for no modification to the doctrine that whatever is, is one.
		Only a concept which isolates what falls under it in a definite manner, and which does not permit any arbitrary division into parts, can be a unit relative to a finite number… Not all concepts posses this quality.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/object (3156 words)

	OO Software Architecture - 3. OO Concepts
		A class is an abstraction of the characteristics of a collection of objects.
		Objects can be removed from memory either as explicitly instructed by the programmer, or via garbage collection (which happens when no other in-memory data references the object, so the object can never be accessed again).
		That is, when you send a message to an object, the object looks first for a corresponding method in its class, then in its parent class, its grandparent class, and so on.
	www.cs.ualberta.ca /~hoover/201-Notes/Notes/section/Orig/betsy.htm (2003 words)

	Nouns - Parts - Sentences - Writing - Study Skills (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nouns are said to have number because they can be singular or plural.
		Most plural nouns are formed by adding 's' (thus 'ball' becomes 'balls'), 'es' (thus 'box' becomes 'boxes'), or 'en' (thus 'ox' becomes 'oxen').
		Some plural nouns are formed by dropping the last letter (usually a 'y'), and adding 'ies' (thus 'courtesy' becomes 'courtesies', 'faculty' becomes 'faculties', and so on).
	learnline.cdu.edu.au /studyskills/wr/wr_se_pa_no.html (310 words)

	"Names Without Bearers" by Jerrold J. Katz
		The object of study in the former is English, French, Chinese, etc., and the object of study in the latter is the linguistic behavior of their speakers.
		Given the truth of a use of (6), its complement sentence expresses the object of belief, that is, the propositional object to which the speaker of the sentence is related in virtue of the speaker's having the belief.
		Those proper nouns are trans lated by translating their common noun constituents term for term, but their reference is not fixed by what would be their compositional meaning were they common nouns.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/philo/courses/concepts/katznames.html (13941 words)

	What is a noun?
		Nouns embody one of the most time-stable concepts in a language.
		Other, non-prototypical nouns must be identified by distributional similarities to prototypical nouns.
		These nouns are prototypical nouns in English because they are perceived as concrete, physical, compact entities which do not change significantly over time.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANoun.htm (192 words)

	Office of Library Information Services
		Collect and evaluate resources that are related to the topic or meaning of the question/decision/problem being researched.
		Series of twelve, fifty-minute lessons in which students explore variation within and between species, consider why classification is important and are introduced to scientific classification of animals, investigate patterns of variation in living things and discover ways of representing and explaining the occurrence of variations.
		A collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams.
	www.bcps.org /offices/lis/curric/vsc/sci6.html (8711 words)

	EDUCE Details
		The only situations where nouns are transformed into verbs is when the noun is used as a verb, especially when a name comes to mean an action - e.g., lynch, boycott.
		The noun form of a verb identifies a physical object, OR The noun form of a verb identifies an important domain concept.
		The meaning of each concept (noun) is supported by a spectrum of associated predicates (verbs).
	www.educery.com /papers/educe/details.htm (1126 words)

	Getting a Handle on ActionScript > About Objects and Classes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Objects are data types—such as sound, graphics, text, and numeric values—that you create in Flash and use to control the movie.
		Flash objects range from visible things, such as a movie clip of a spinning ball, to more abstract concepts, such as the date, pieces of data, or the handling of keyboard inputs.
		Before you can use objects, you need to be able to identify them, and you do so by name just as we do in the real world.
	www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=27191 (748 words)

	The Neuro-Cognitive and Emotional Roots of Mathematics
		The distinctions of what and where have been associated with the more abstract concepts of objects and relationships however these rigid distinctions are not so rigid in that neuro-cognitive research has shown that in the new-born (and just pre-birth) there is a definite bias to WHERE over WHAT.
		Note that a ‘part’ is the term we use for the combination of (a) an object and (b) a relationship to a greater object and it is the word ‘part’ that reflects what we can call the superposition of two distinctions – the distinction of ‘wholeness’ combined with the distinction of ‘relatedness’.
		In other words our language is built on the fundamental distinctions of objects (nouns) and relationships (verbs) and out of these fundamentals develop more complex expressions that in their own right can create far more complex contexts that in turn support even more complex expressions.
	pages.prodigy.net /lofting/NeuroMaths3.htm (6064 words)

	Iltârer Pronouns
		The second person is also applied to non-persons, including inanimate objects, when the things involved are seen respectfully, as being in relationship with oneself, rather than as simple objects.
		The abstract demonstrative pronoun is used in conjunction with the relative particle for indirect discourse and related expressions.
		When the antecedent is a single word or noun phrase, a personal pronoun is invariably used instead of the abstract demonstrative.
	www.telp.com /ilt_pronouns.htm (694 words)

	cs1ch5.htm
		Proponents of the object oriented paradigm argue that programming problems can be best analyzed by focusing first on the objects involved in a problem and only then on the functions performed by and on those objects.
		Using the object oriented terms of class and instance, a species can be seen as a class and an individual member of the species as an instance of the class, an object belonging to the class.
		None of the rest of the underlined nouns refer to desks so the answer seems to be no. When we get to the italicized verbs we will also see that none of them describe behaviors of desks so nothing about desks seems to concern us or Olympia except their number in a contract.
	cs.nmhu.edu /personal/curtis/cs1htmlfiles/cs1ch5.htm (13749 words)

	On "Patriarchal Poetry"
		Reimagining thinking away from concepts and definitions, away from its practices of nominalization/objectification, and toward its poetic form, makes Stein's work central not only to the avant-garde's revision of aesthetics but also to the critique of modernity and its cultural manifestations.
		Stein's linking of this repetitiveness and predictability of grammar with the central role of nouns in language suggests that the everyday itself is "patriarchal"—structured and regulated by the hierarchical rules of representation that assure the dominance of the "more valuable" substantive forms of objectified knowledge.
		Nouns and adjectives never can make mistakes can never be mistaken but verbs can be so endlessly, both as to what they do and how they agree or disagree with whatever they do.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/stein/patriarchal.htm (7861 words)

	Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants
		List of collective nouns for objects and concepts
		List of collective nouns for reptiles and amphibians
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /index_189.html (141 words)

	Information about noncount nouns
		In a sentance, a noncount noun is treated like a singular noun and uses the verb form for singular nouns.
		However, noncount nouns that represent a collection or a mass may be preceded by a phrase that indicates quantity, or quantifier, such as a lot of, a little, some, much, any.
		Noncount nouns are used for academic subjects or areas of professional expertise.
	www.gsu.edu /~wwwesl/egw/nouns/noncount.htm (567 words)

	Paul Bloom;Language Acquisition, Concepts, CNS Development (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One area of research explores whether children can use grammatical properties of a word (such as whether it is a noun) to determine aspects of its meaning (such as whether it refers to an individual entity).
		Ongoing experiments explore the role of grammar in the acquisition of names for objects or substances, as well as in the acquisition of more "abstract" names, such as collective nouns (like "forest" and "family"), number words, and names for artwork.
		Finally, cross-linguistic research addresses how mechanisms of acquisition apply in languages with different grammatical structures--in collaboration with members of the linguistic department, we are currently embarking on a set of studies with children who are learning Navajo as their first language.
	psych.arizona.edu /facsfls/bpri.html (485 words)

	How to Understand Parts of Speech - WikiHow
		In British English, collective nouns always use the plural form of the verb.
		An object pronoun is a personal pronoun used as a direct object.
		The subject performs the action; the direct object is the recipient of the action.
	www.wikihow.com /Understand-Parts-of-Speech (514 words)

	Is Relevance Relevant? Market, Science, and War: Discourses of Search Engine Quality
		The article begins by articulating the concept of the technological schema, a discursive formation through which technology is given meaning and which is used to mobilize other resources such as money and labor.
		The key theoretical underpinning of this article is the concept of 'structuration,' a reflexive social theory drawn from the work of Anthony Giddens (1984), which proposes that people's actions and discourses influence social systems but are also in turn influenced by them.
		The period of data collection was thus quite long—between November 2002 and May 2004—and each interview typically required several contacts prior to the interview itself.
	jcmc.indiana.edu /vol12/issue3/vancouvering.html (8662 words)

	The Teonaht Noun
		The accusative ending in Nenddeylyt nouns is most commonly -p and -b, appended to nouns ending in -m, -r, -s, and -ol; for nouns ending with -arn, the mutations is to -armp; -s for nouns ending with -k; -z for nouns ending in -il or -ndl, or a vowel.
		The relationship of the primary noun to the secondary one has to be shown, and Teonaht compounds fall into six basic categories, governed by abbreviated forms of the prepositions, which are then prefixed or suffixed to either the primary or the secondary noun.
		In this construction, the "fitability" of a noun is expressed, and is almost identical in structure to the potentive verbal adjective (see in the section on "Verbs").
	www.frontiernet.net /~scaves/teonoun.html (3213 words)

	List of collective nouns
		List of collective nouns for reptiles and amphibians
		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants
		List of collective nouns for objects and concepts
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_collective_nouns.html (50 words)

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