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	English collective nouns - Wikivisual
		Most collective nouns encountered in everyday speech (such as "group") are mundane and are not specific to one kind of constituent object (for example, the uses "group of people", "group of dogs", and "group of ideas" are all correct uses).
		The tradition of using collective nouns that are specific to certain kinds of animals stems from an English hunting tradition, dating back to at least the 15th century, in which poetic names were given to specific kinds of prey ("venery" means the hunting of animals).
		For this reason, there are many collective nouns that refer to animals and many of these original collective nouns are archaic: a "harras of horses" seems to have been used little since the 1400s.
	en.wikivisual.com /index.php/Collective_noun (836 words)

	Collective noun Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/c/co/collective_noun.html (780 words)

	[FOM] a series of grammatical confusions
		Thus there are collective nouns like ‘shoal’, ‘herd’, ‘pack’, ‘tribe’, collective nouns like ‘pair’, ‘triplet’, ‘quartet’, ‘dozen’, and plural expressions like ‘the fish’, ‘the beasts’,‘the cards’, ‘the savages’.
		It is from collective nouns of the first sort that Set Theory draws the idea of collections of objects, but the distinctive thing about those natural language terms is that they are species specific, to one degree or another, so that they each describe certain mereological sums under a certain aspect.
		One must take care about what is added to the bare ‘y is one of some apples’: clearly ‘y is one of 2 apples’ may speak about the same apples, but is more specific about their number, and ‘y is one of a pair of apples’ likewise.
	cs.nyu.edu /pipermail/fom/2006-February/009887.html (1270 words)

	English collective nouns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most collective nouns encountered in everyday speech (such as "group") are mundane and are not specific to one kind of constituent object (for example, the uses "group of people", "group of dogs", and "group of ideas" are all correct uses).
		The tradition of using collective nouns that are specific to certain kinds of animals stems from an English hunting tradition, dating back to at least the 15th century, in which poetic names were given to specific kinds of prey ("venery" means the hunting of animals).
		For this reason, there are many collective nouns that refer to animals and many of these original collective nouns are archaic: a "harras of horses" seems to have been used little since the 1400s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collective_noun (748 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)

	Khuzdul – the language of the Dwarves
		There is no structure for one-radical derived nouns in all the plural forms, since the plural suffixes for those nouns are inflected as well; so there simply are no one-radical derived nouns in dual, septal, indefinite and definite plural.
		Nouns in singular, dual and septal are normally indefinite; there is, however, a definite prefix thu- (or th’- before vowels), although this is only rarely used, since definite nouns are mostly obvious from the context.
		For action nouns, the durative present is used to form a gerund which may act both in an adjectival and in a nominal sense; that is, u1a for one-radical roots, u1a2 for two-radical roots and 1u23(u) for three-radical roots; this is also employed as a verb abstract structure, whence
	www.angelfire.com /mi/khuzdul/khuzdul/roland.htm (2496 words)

	Poynter Online - Writing Tools
		In my example, the incorrect verb was contaminated by its proximity to plural nouns that were not the subject.
		One common reason for this error, as we have seen, is the separation of subject and verb.
		Words like collection, posse, class, squadron, gaggle have a plural sense (you can't, for example, have a gaggle of goose), but take a singular verb.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=144452&sid=2 (772 words)

	RoadMap
		Subject matter indicators are represented in computable ontology constructions, including the most simple, and yet most powerful, one based on a concept label and one to n (undetermined integer) word, word stem or word phrases.
		Subject matter indicators are identified using several types of patented semantic extraction processes.
		Collective global analysis occurs within contexts that are implicitly (not necessarily explicitly) structured by relationships that are established when many individuals work with localized ontology.
	www.bcngroup.org /area1/2005beads/GIF/RoadMap.htm (5629 words)

	Untitled Document
		These nouns are called collective nouns, and they indicate several individuals, but are singular -- and take singular verbs -- because they describe one single group.
		A noun that ends in ing may act as the subject of a sentence when it is called a gerund.
		Although there are many subjects about verbs that you may have covered in your classes about verbs, there are only two you will need to focus on for this exam: tense and voice.
	www.uppercapetech.com /MCAS/Mlithomegram.htm (1426 words)

	Language analyzer for morphemically and syntactically analyzing natural languages by using block analysis and composite ...
		The preceeding proper noun processing section 4028 judges as to whether the entry preceeding to the proper noun is a proper noun not registered in the reference dictionary 4020 or not, that is, whether it is applied with the processing for the dictionary not registered proper noun described later or not (4100).
		If the preceeding proper noun processing section 4028 judges in the step 4200 that the entry preceeding to the proper noun is not a registered proper noun, it judges as to whether the entry preceeding to the proper noun is a proper noun registered in the reference dictionary 4020 or not (4204).
		The data are sent from the preceeding proper noun processing section 4028 to the proper noun per se processing section 4030 and the proper noun per se processing section 4030 judges the retrieve key character array as a proper noun the feature information of which is unknown (4314).
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5225981.html (17850 words)

	Gregory Ulmer - 'Memorial: Disaster Consultancy', August 2000, European Graduate School, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
		The collective expression of the oral institution is the tribe.
		The collective expression of this apparatus is the nation-state, ultimately made possible by print, and when we name self-hood, literacy and the nation-state, we realize why the critics of electracy are so upset, because indeed self-hood and national democratic politics are features of literacy and they will not persist in electracy.
		At the same time there is this sort of implicit acceptance of the fact that we are still operating within a critical perspective, and I wonder whether if isn't the case that this space of critique is not totally obviated.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/ulmer/ulmer-emergent-ontologies-2000.html (8402 words)

	Questions about Premium Forums - Objectivism Online Forum
		There is a considerable similarity between "collective noun" and "concept", but "collective noun" is fairly arbitrary in the language, while "concept" is not.
		A concrete example of a collective noun, in American usage, is "team".
		In the first sentence, the subject is the collective noun "team" -- formally singular (note the use of "is", not "are") but conceptually plural ("they have", not "it has", though you could say that, which gets us into another level of complication).
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=2824 (1711 words)

	PTLC: Vocabulary
		However, the state standards made several clear references to nouns (“Use singular and plural nouns appropriately in speech,” and “Use subject and verb agreement in simple sentences”) in grade 1 and had advanced to the use of proper nouns and pronouns by grade 2.
		If the sorting method, or any other protocol, is not appropriate for the type of work collected through the common assessment, the facilitator needs to help the teachers find a more suitable manner for conducting the analysis.
		Once the facilitator has collected sufficient data to demonstrate that vocabulary is no longer the area of greatest need or that teachers have adroitly adopted the vocabulary instructional strategies into their practice, the facilitator can turn to another focus area.
	www.sedl.org /ws/vocabulary.html (11337 words)

	Proto-Indo-European Syntax. Chapter 5: Syntactic Categories of PIE
		Already in the early dialects the subject or object relationship of duals and of neuter nouns to verbs in the third person was determinable chiefly from their position and clarified by the presence of other elements in the clause which were unambiguous.
		The late development of the number system in the noun is also clear from the lack of parallelism between the forms of the dual, for which only three forms developed, and the forms of the singular and plural.
		The number system, both in the noun and in the verb, came to be reduced to two categories, with eventual loss of uses and inflections corresponding to dual number, such as a distinct adjectival comparative as opposed to a positive and a superlative.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/centers/lrc/books/pies05.html (12759 words)

	New Page 1
		They are usually involved in some sort of conflict, which develops into the plot.
		Use adjectives to modify nouns; use adverbs to modify verbs or adjectives.
		A subject pronoun is used as the subject of a sentence.
	cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu /decasperd/classNOTES.htm (2573 words)

	abstract
		This means that in Italian, firstly, there are two noun classes, the feminine and the masculine class, and, secondly, that the claim that all nouns ending in [-a] are feminine, whereas all nouns ending in [-o] are masculine is correct.
		Subject relatives are NPs relativized in the role of Subject, whereas Object relatives are NPs relativized in the role of Direct Object.
		Subjects (n=24) were presented with nonce signs in which the handshapes were replaced with frequent handshapes, infrequent handshapes, and non-occurring (impossible) handshapes in ASL.
	www.unm.edu /~hdls/conf/2002/abstract.html (17304 words)

	InterAxiom Technologies: Data Warehousing (DW) Glossary
		The legacy data was not originally collected for the purpose of decision support so some of the key data might be missing, incomplete, or not as accurate as desired.
		of business subject areas, stores the information in a manner that is accessible and understandable to non-technical decision makers, and delivers information to decision makers across the organization through various report writing and query tools.
		OLTP is a collective term encompassing the operations and systems that process transactions as part of a company’s daily business activities.
	www.interaxiom.com /glossary.htm (4905 words)

	Collective noun/Talk - Wikipedia
		Many collective nouns are obscure and archaic - hence a citation from any (respectable) dictionary will be deemed to validate the term.
		And, given that we're not going to have subpages, all the subpages could conveniently live on, e.g., collective nouns sorted by subject and collective nouns for birds.
		I am reinstating the most prevalent usage of charm as a collective noun (in my neck of the woods at any case).
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collective_nouns/Talk (615 words)

	Method and apparatus for increased language fluency through interactive comprehension, recognition and generation of ...
		An answer in response to the question "what?" identifies objects (common nouns) and their placement in a sentence, along with practicing and understanding the meaning of words such as this, that, these and those.
		The teacher can also establish the tone for the story (happy, true, imaginary, funny and so on) and whether the story should be written from the student' s point of view (first person) or from someone else's point of view (third person).
		By breaking the scores down to the components of the English language (or other subject), teachers can more easily identify the specific components that are easier or more difficult for particular students.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /6305942.html (7878 words)

	[thelist] subject verb agreement (was: Site Critique) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"The collective nouns include: army assembly, audience, board, breed, cast, choir, class, club, commission, committee, community, company, corporation, council, couple, covey, crew, crowd, department, faculty, family, firm, flock, furniture, gang, group, heard, jury, mob, orchestra, panel, press, public, remainder, staff, team, union, and United States.
		"As we said, the verb after a collective noun is usually singular.
		The rule is this: "Use the singular form when the collective noun is begin used in the sense of a single group operating together in agreement; use the plural form if the noun is being used to name a group operating as individuals or in disagreement." Teresa
	lists.evolt.org /archive/Week-of-Mon-20000515/100949.html (172 words)

	Life8 N
		A quick primer: Collective nouns are nouns used to describe groups of objects, e.g.
		The terminology sometimes ranges to the odd end of the spectrum, and this has led multiple people to invent new collective nouns, from the automotive (a ring of Saturns) to the mathematical (a group of abstract algebras) to the silly (a school of marms).
		These are the sort of people that could start a new, clear war, and you can just forget about a seize-fire then.
	www.tpo.net /humor/Ultra/life/life8.n.html (1721 words)

	Collective nouns (Russell Hendel)
		In fact, I criticise others for their inappropriate use of statistics (2) Once again, let me emphasise that my main reservation in this sort of study is that the attempt to explain the behaviour of `am in ancient Hebrew is done on the sole basis of the Masoretic Text.
		I believe there is a serious question whether the current distribution of singular/plural verbs with `am in the Masoretic Text reflects adequately the "original" distribution of those forms deriving from the authors the biblical books.
		we know why singular/plural nouns are each chosen to be with `am, therefore this must be the reason for the variation here.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/1998-December/000595.html (848 words)

	Sample merechi grammar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ordinary plural is -t or -et; the collective plural, denoting all X or a complete set of X, is -n or àn.
		If it is the subject of the subclause, it becomes a prefix to the verb; otherwise it stands alone and can take case suffixes and postpositions.
		Otherwise, the subject will be the noun without a case suffix or postposition, and will agree with the pronoun on the verb.
	www.quandary.org /~langs/merechi/grammar.html (906 words)

	DP102: Non-filing characters
		Articles are almost universally ignored in sorting and filing when they appear at the beginning of a name or title because they tend to be used intermittently.
		In MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), for example, name of chemical compounds, when including prefixed letters or numbers, are sorted and filed ignoring the prefixes.
		Otherwise the case (i.e., upper or lower) of alphabetic characters is also ignored, as are associated diacritical marks which in some cases are counted as "non-filing characters".
	www.loc.gov /marc/marbi/dp/dp102.html (2235 words)

	LLT Vol5Num3 Kennedy: An Evaluation of Intermediate Students' Approaches to Corpus Investigation
		For the purposes of this paper, we numbered them according to their results in the written Italian subject in which the corpus apprenticeship was conducted as well as in its companion subject in spoken Italian.
		When dealing with Italian nouns, verbs, and adjectives, if a first search fails to produce sufficient evidence, it should be automatic to check different inflected forms.
		Had she searched on the masculine and plural forms as well (or used the stem together with a wildcard character: estrem*), she would have had several examples to consider, and she would have been able to detect the mobility of this adjective, with the choice of position reflecting degree of emphasis.
	llt.msu.edu /vol5num3/kennedy/default.html (7318 words)

	Collective nouns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You wrote re lack of concord between references to collective nouns: > The following observations, however, would need to be borne in mind by anyone > undertaking such a study of the literary purpose of such variation: > > 1.
		We expect the practice of one author to vary from another, each work to have something of its own discourse techniques.
		Or no? Is the distribution of pl and sg references to collective nouns reflective of "optional" behavior rather than "obligatory"?
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/1998-November/000505.html (178 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| The distance-profile representation and its application to detection of distantly related ...
		However, these methods do not exploit collective aspects of the protein space and the computed scores are often noisy and frequently fail to recognize distantly related protein families.
		The nouns and verbs are then clustered based on this representation.
		Given the sorted list of results for a query protein p, the ROC1-S index totals the number of proteins in the same superfamily as p that are observed from the top of the sorted list until the first false match (i.e.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2105/6/282 (11028 words)

	[Twisted-Python] coding standard: plurals for database table names (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For example, plural nouns often sound the same as posessive nouns, and this makes learning them more difficult.
		Even the notion of plurals themselves is not really a universal construct, as I understand some languages use an adjective meaning 'one or more' in conjunction with singluar nouns to make them plural rather than modifying the word itself.
		And lastly, plurals enter into the whole range of collective nounds, which differ in their singluar/plural treatment depending if you are English or American.
	twistedmatrix.com /pipermail/twisted-python/2003-April/003487.html (447 words)

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