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	Collective noun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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).
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/c/co/collective_noun.html (774 words)

	Collective noun - Wikipedia
		A collective noun is a word used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts.
		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, etc) or inanimate (typically manufactured) objects (knives, spoons, keys, dinnerware, manuals, etc).
		Several of the collective nouns presented are specifically regional (it is unlikely that a "disworship of Scots" was used in Scotland with any frequency).
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collective_noun (760 words)

	The Collective Noun
		People often behave in the same manner, doing one thing in unison with the other members of their group.
		When these people are part of a collective noun, that noun becomes singular.
		When the members are acting as individuals, the collective noun is plural and requires plural verbs and pronouns.
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/collectivenoun.htm (500 words)

	Epistemology: Concepts vs. Collective Nouns - Objectivism Online Forum
		Other collective nouns are a "gaggle" of geese, a "flock" of sheep, etc. It is important to note that these collective nouns aren't merely a group of dissociated things denoted by concepts, (i.e.
		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.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=2785 (1166 words)

	Unit 5. Singular, plural, and collective nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some nouns are used in particular meanings in the singular with a determiner, like count nouns, but are not used in the plural with that meaning.
		Some nouns are used in particular meanings in the plural with or without determiners, like count nouns, but are not used in the singular with that meaning.
		With some nouns that refer to a group of people or things, the same form can be used with singular or plural verbs, because you can think of the group as a unit or as individuals.
	www.langust.ru /unit_co/unit005c.shtml (349 words)

	collective nouns english grammar learnenglish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.learnenglish.org.uk /grammar/archive/collective_nouns.html (418 words)

	Articles - Collective noun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		One author of a computer book invented some obviously joking collective nouns which systems developers could relate to, including a "bleat" of users; a "retreat" of consultants; and a "trough" of salespersons.
		Likewise, "flock" is a generic collective noun for all sorts of flying birds and also for sheep.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Collective_noun (882 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)

	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)

	Learn English - Grammar - Collective Nouns / 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.learnenglish.de /grammar/nouncollective.htm (219 words)

	List of collective nouns for people - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The phrase "An abomination of monks" is frequently cited as a legitimate collective noun for monks.
		It is actually a misinterpretation of the title of a protestant treatise written by Jan Hus around 1400.
		List of collective nouns for people, Notes and See also.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Collective_nouns_for_people (107 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.
		Sometimes the plural form with a collective noun can sound awkward, even if it is correct.
	www.sabri.org /CollectiveNouns.htm (283 words)

	Quantifiers Lecture: related grammar points (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It does not matter whether the verb is singular or plural because the verb agrees with the collective noun, not the object of the preposition.
		That is to say, with lots of or a lot of, the tense of the verb depends on the noun that is the object of the preposition "of" and NOT on the quantifier a lot of or lots.
		A definite noun is a word that expresses a thing (or person) which is known, that is, which is identified.
	www.iei.uiuc.edu /online/ts/sample/related.html (1402 words)

	Collective nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Collective nouns are names for groups of people, animals or things.
		Collective nouns take singular or plural verbs depending on their meaning.
		to be plural because the presence of the plural noun electrolytes is misleading.
	ceds.vu.edu.au /webbja/subjectverb3.htm (658 words)

	Collective Nouns
		They are concepts without manifestations, phrases used in lieu of logic, evidence, and law by people who in real life have no idea how their next-door neighbors voted in the last election, yet will confidently summarize the opinions and desires of the other three billion on the planet.
		Everyone is familiar with collective nouns such as a pride of lions, an exultation of larks, a concern of social workers, a waffle of senators, and the occasional fraction, such as a Fifth of defense attorneys.
		Collective measures need not be nouns; they can also be adjectives, even lowly articles.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article3823.html (2450 words)

	Nouns
		Collective nouns are names for a group/collection of people/animals/things.
		Collective nouns can be singular or plural and name groups or collections of people, animals, or things.
		When the collective noun is the subject of the sentence, it is usually treated as singular.
	www.peakenglish.com /reference/cgram/nouns.jsp (667 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		What gives is that there is a chasm between collective nouns that are commonly used and collective nouns that are repeated as examples of humorous or unusual words.
		A collective noun is a noun that is singular in formal shape but denotes a group of referents.
		Most collective nouns are familiar to everyone, such as a flight of stairs, a swarm of bees, a flock of sheep, a school of fish.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990730 (388 words)

	Issue 30 - Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation
		The plural 'noun' a category which Reid refrains from using is hence analysed and interpreted as a semantic synthesis of two meaning-bearing units.
		Interpretations that lead a speaker to use singular or plural verb number in combination with collective nouns like people or family are characteristics of the message or "the intended and understood import of a communication" (p.95), not of the meaning or semantic category of a lexical item.
		Not only is this explanation invalid for nouns without corresponding s-less adjectives like politics and physics, it also overlooks the role of the conceptualisation that the speaker has formed of this entity through experience.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~cram/iss30/jooken.htm (2259 words)

	Lists of collective nouns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of collective nouns by collective term A-K
		List of collective nouns for animals, see List of animal names
		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_collective_nouns (87 words)

	Collective Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A collective noun names a group of people or things.
		Collective nouns include family, group, audience, class number, committee, team, and the likes.
		Each of the two people will take a seperate action, so since there is more than one action, the verb is plural.
	www.shawnee.cc.il.us /leslieb/eng111/collectivenoun.html (118 words)

	Collective Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Collective nouns refer to groups, such ascommittee (group of people), flock, (group of birds) orherd (group of animals).
		If the subjectof your sentence is a collective noun, you need to pay special attention to subject-verb agreement.
		Use a singular verb when the collective noun represents the individualsacting as a unit.
	www.mhhe.com /mayfieldpub/tsw/coll-nou.htm (178 words)

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		There are a huge number of disabled people and others who simply cannot upgrade their equipment as often as they would like.
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	Nouns: Grammar: Guide to Authors: Publishing in ESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A proper noun names a particular object, person, or place, or group of objects, persons, or places.
		These may be concrete, naming people or things that you can touch, see, hear, taste, or smell, such as rock, geologist, or abstract, naming things you cannot perceive directly with your senses, such as geology, education.
		Collective nouns such as board, cabinet, commission, committee, council, government, group, majority, number, and series take their verb or pronoun in either the singular or plural, depending upon the context in which they are used.
	www.nrcan.gc.ca /ess/pubs/guide/gramm/nouns_e.html (342 words)

	Language Log: Collective nouns with singular verbs and plural pronouns
		Collective nouns with singular verbs and plural pronouns
		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
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001874.html (1615 words)

	Style Guide \| University of Colorado at Boulder
		Collective Nouns Many words—including faculty, committee, board, team, class, public, group, and now data (see Word List)—can be both singular and plural.
		The choice of a singular or plural verb depends upon whether the writer intends to refer to the group as a whole or to the members of the group.
		The largest group of pleasure travelers is composed of people between the ages of 55 and 64.
	www.colorado.edu /Publications/styleguide/grammar.html (772 words)

	Agreement with Collective Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A collective noun is singular when it refers to a group that acts as one unit - as in sentence 1.
		A collective noun names a group but may be used as a singular noun or as a plural noun.
		Write whether each collective noun is singular or plural.
	www.sfcss.org /OGJH/pcross/Pages/reteach/Unit10L3.htm (179 words)

	Articles: Precision of Lexicographers
		People often write in about the conventional terms for groups of animals and people, especially birds, such as parliament of rooks or murder of crows.
		The first collection in English is The Book of St Albans of 1486, an early printed work from a small press at St Albans that used worn-out type that had been discarded by William Caxton.
		Type “collective nouns” into any Web search engine: you’ll find dozens of sites featuring them, though the level of wit is sadly variable.
	www.quinion.com /words/articles/collectives.htm (572 words)

	Collective Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		What happens, though, when the subject is a collective noun (e.g.
		If the action of the verb is on the group as a whole, treat the noun as a singular noun.
		If the action of the verb is on members of the group as individuals, treat the noun as a plural noun.
	www.gu.edu.au /centre/gupsa/eir/content_collective_nouns.html (154 words)

	Collective nouns - ESL Resources
		Collective Nouns - in American English : list (paulnoll.com)
		Learn these 16 collective nouns describing groups of people or things.
		Some of their names are as unusual as the items they collect.
	www.ac-nancy-metz.fr /enseign/anglais/Henry/collectif.htm (246 words)

	Re: collective nouns, redux
		Googling the term "collective nouns" yielded a bevy of different sites, some more extensive than others, and many containing made-up humorous suggestions.
		"Cows" in the collective are indeed "kine", but "cows" itself is collective in that identical sense; one would never say "a kine of cows", because "kine" carries no more sense of a group than does the term "cows" itself.
		: The original question had to to with a collective noun describing a group of people; most of the sites found by Google gave facetious suggestions, but one or another of them might yield something useful.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/22/messages/994.html (270 words)

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