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  The Collective Noun
Collective nouns, a special class, name groups [things] composed of members [usually people].
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)

  
 LIST OF COLLECTIVE NOUNS BY SUBJECT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The phrase "A court of kangaroos" is frequently thought to be legitimate, given the expression "a kangaroo court".
List of collective nouns for non-human mammals Index
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.faktoen.com /wiki/en/li/List%20of%20collective%20nouns%20by%20subject.htm   (156 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.
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.
Because "team" refers to several individual members, it is a plural noun, and therefore requires a plural verb - "are" - as a result.
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 Collectible card game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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)

  
 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
List of collective nouns for objects and concepts
List of collective nouns for reptiles and amphibians
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /index_189.html   (141 words)

  
 Collective Nouns
Here is a short list of other such nouns culled quickly from various sources, a few of which you may not have seen before.
You’ll no doubt know the expression collective noun, applied to nouns which refer to a group (usually of people or animals), but which are singular in form.
A collective name for all the forms of floating or drifting organic life at various depths in the ocean, or, by extension, in bodies of fresh water.
www.bikwil.com /Vintage41/Collective-Nouns.html   (886 words)

  
 The Collective Nouns List
If you don't know what collective nouns are, they're terms for groups of things (animals, etc.).
Lovers of collective nouns should own James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks, which I got for Christmas this year to my great delight.
And of course, I encourage visitors to this site to send in their own collective nouns, or e-mail me if there are any you are looking for that you don't see on this page.
lightning.prohosting.com /~nedriel/random/collective.html   (149 words)

  
 Did You Know?: Collective Nouns of People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
This alphabetical list of collective nouns of people is not comprehensive.
This is necessary due to the fact that people do make up their own collective nouns to generate interest or just to be humorous.
Thus, these humorous words are repeated as examples of collective nouns.
universalfacts.blogspot.com /2006/02/collective-nouns-of-people.html   (637 words)

  
 Collective Nouns: EnchantedLearning.com
A collective noun is a word for a group of specific items, animals or people.
For more collective nouns for groups of animals, click here.
Match each collective noun (the name of a group of items) to the noun it relates to (for example, school --> fish, herd --> cattle).
www.zoomastronomy.com /grammar/partsofspeech/nouns/collective   (245 words)

  
 The Collective Noun Homepage - Mailing List
For the purposes of submission/suggestion, a collective noun is a noun, used to describe a collection of objects, which:
Refers to the collection of the described object, not an instance of such a collection ("a kindle of kittens in a basket", not "a basket of kittens").
There are three prizes to be won for a collective noun for Ph.D. graduates.
www.ojohaven.com /collectives/mailinglist.html   (1272 words)

  
 List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants - Infomations about List of collective nouns for fish, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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 Talk:List of collective nouns by collective term : Talk:Collective nouns sorted by collective term
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FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IN COLLECTIVE NOUNS PAGE - function of different types of collectives - in addition to spureous nature I see in some "documented" words, (more when I can drag out the resources, there is a major flaw between referring to a gaggle of geese and a deck of cards.
The only definition I know of concerning the fundamentals of a gaggle is "at least seven" according to the authors of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
www.fastload.org /ta/Talk:Collective_nouns_sorted_by_collective_term.html   (201 words)

  
 List of collective nouns for people Details, Meaning List of collective nouns for people Article and Explanation Guide
List of collective nouns for people Details, Meaning List of collective nouns for people Article and Explanation Guide
List of collective nouns for people Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
This is an Article on List of collective nouns for people.
www.e-paranoids.com /l/li/list_of_collective_nouns_for_people.html   (120 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)

  
 Group Names for Birds
There were manuscript lists of group names in the 15th century, and these lists appeared in some of the first books printed in England.
Alas, the OED itself is not totally reliable: the word "kettle" (as both a noun and a verb) has been used by hawk watchers for many years, and it has often appeared in print; the OED editors obviously are not birders.
View a list of whimsical group names submitted by chatters.
www.bcpl.net /~tross/gnlist.html   (384 words)

  
 List of collective nouns Details, Meaning List of collective nouns Article and Explanation Guide
List of collective nouns Details, Meaning List of collective nouns Article and Explanation Guide
List of collective nouns Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
This is an Article on List of collective nouns.
www.e-paranoids.com /l/li/list_of_collective_nouns.html   (117 words)

  
 Anne'Xed Network's Collective Nouns
Sometimes a collective noun can be used as a plural noun.
Examples of these collective nouns are water, money, dishwashing liquid, toilet paper, sand, soap, dirt, etc. Other collective nouns (the class, the committee, the team...) have a somewhat schizophrenic personality.
There is no one organization or committee that decides what is officially a collective noun and what's not.
www.annexed.net /bthree/nouns.html   (242 words)

  
 list of collective nouns - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word list of collective nouns:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "list of collective nouns" is defined.
Phrases that include list of collective nouns: list of collective nouns by subject a-h, list of collective nouns by subject a-z, list of collective nouns by subject a h, list of collective nouns by subject a z, list of collective nouns by subject i-z, more...
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 Learn more about List of collective nouns by subject in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Learn more about List of collective nouns by subject in the online encyclopedia.
You are here: Online Encyclopedia > List of collective nouns by subject
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_collective_nouns_by_subject.html   (215 words)

  
 Collective Nouns for birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Many thanks to Bernard P. Nofs of Trenton, New Jersey, USA, for his numerous additions to this list.
A New Zealand Bird’s bird song CD will be sent for any additions to this list, especially New Zealand and Australian birds.
New Zealand Birds has found no collective nouns under the alpha headings of "U", "X", or "Z", therefore no corresponding pages for those letters have been established.
www.nzbirds.com /more/nouns.html   (67 words)

  
 List of collective nouns for people - Infomations about List of collective nouns for people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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www.semantical.com /Li/List_of_collective_nouns_for_people_7152.html   (34 words)

  
 AskOxford: Collective Terms for Animals
In this section is a pretty comprehensive list of collective terms for animals.
Ivan G. Sparkes, Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms (White Lion, 1975).
The Concise Oxford Dictionary contains a selection of collective nouns for groups of animals.
www.askoxford.com /asktheexperts/collective/?view=uk   (268 words)

  
 List of collective nouns by collective term   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
List of collective nouns by collective term
List of collective nouns by collective term A-K
List of collective nouns by collective term L-Z
www.websign.sk /co/Collective_nouns_sorted_by_collective_term.html   (188 words)

  
 Collective bird nouns: A gallon of petrels?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Wild Bird News years ago (1990?) had a contest in which readers could send in their best collective bird nouns and try to win a prize.
Examples given were a parliament of owls and a paddling of ducks.
Here's my list and then some that were printed in Wild Bird News.
www-personal.umich.edu /~bbowman/birds/humor/birdnoun.html   (122 words)

  
 List of collective nouns for non-human mammals - Infomations about List of collective nouns for non-human mammals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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www.semantical.com /Li/List_of_collective_nouns_for_non-human_mammals_7151.html   (46 words)

  
 Plastic: Not-quite-so-helpful Help
Do note that Plastic's spellcheck is not yet comprehensive (especially when it comes to all those new 'hip,' 'jive' expressions), and never intends to offend you.
If you operate a commercial Web site or an online service directed to children under 13 that collects personal inf ormation from children or if you operate a general audience Web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children, you must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
It does not collect and does not know the age or date of birth of its members, and has no reasonable expectation that children 12 and under would want to register with the site.
www.plastic.com /faq.html   (4163 words)

  
 Common Questions: What Do You Call a Group of...?
Whatever the motivating factor, we have received a spate of questions on collective nouns or group names for all sorts of critters.
This listing exhausts the meager pile of references available at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center; if the animal that you are interested in doesn't appear here, please, please, ask someone else, because I can't help you!
If you are interested in derivation of some of these names, or if you just want some fun reading, check out James Lipton's book entitled "An Exaltation of Larks" 2nd edition (Penguin Books 1977).
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /help/faq/animals/names.htm   (375 words)

  
 collective doggy nouns please
come up with an alphabetical list of collective nouns for a sub species, explain why you think your choice of word is suitable for each.
Ch Karakara Kausing Khaos JW Re: collective doggy nouns please
does the noun have to start with the same letter as the breed ?
www.dogclub.co.uk /forum/index.php?topic=2265.0   (466 words)

  
 LM_NET 05/31/02: HUMOR: Definitive list of Collective Nouns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
LM_NET 05/31/02: HUMOR: Definitive list of Collective Nouns
There is now a definitive list of collective nouns for all librarians: http://warriorlibrarian.com/LOL/nouns.html Enjoy!
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