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	Sentence Correction
		The 'subject' of a sentence is the noun to which the verb in the sentence refers, and so the two must always agree in number: singular subjects must be paired with singular verbs; and plural subjects, with plural verbs.
		Collective nouns, such as family, majority, audience, and committee are singular when they act in a collective fashion or represent one group.
		In this sentence, "neither" is the subject, not the plural noun "rosebushes".
	www.800score.com /guidec4view1c.html (1781 words)

	What is a Noun?
		A concrete noun is the opposite of a abstract noun.
		Countable nouns are the opposite of non-countable nouns and collective nouns.
		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 (1983 words)

	definitions of english grammar terms (page 1)
		In English grammar an antecedent is a noun that precedes a pronoun in a sentence.
		A noun or pronoun that is the subject of a sentence is nominative case.
		(Graffito is a noun and is the object of the preposition of.
	www.iscribe.org /english/list.html (1526 words)

	nouns - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		A noun (Latin nomen, “name”) is usually defined as a word denoting a thing, place, person, quality, or action and functioning in a sentence as the...
		All nouns in Spanish have gender—either masculine or feminine.
		A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase.
	encarta.msn.com /nouns.html (222 words)

	List of collective nouns by subject
		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.
		There is no known evidence of its legitimacy as a collective noun, however.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_collective_nouns_by_subject.html (155 words)

	List of collective nouns by subject Details, Meaning List of collective nouns by subject Article and Explanation Guide
		List of collective nouns by subject Details, Meaning List of collective nouns by subject Article and Explanation Guide
		List of collective nouns by subject Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		This is an Article on List of collective nouns by subject.
	www.e-paranoids.com /l/li/list_of_collective_nouns_by_subject.html (209 words)

	List of collective nouns - Gurupedia
		List of collective nouns by collective term A-K
		List of collective nouns for reptiles and amphibians
		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants
	www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_english_measure_words.htm (61 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)

	Iltârer Nouns
		The collective is distinguished from the plural by inclusively containing all real and possible elements of the class; it often has a certain Platonic or archetypal connotation, much as seen in the English word humanity, which is not only signifies all human beings, but also the collection of qualities that constitute human identity.
		The absolutive case is often used for a direct object, the subject of an intransitive verb, and for abstract nouns and nouns representing inanimate objects, regardless of whether they appear as subject or object.
		Concrete, collective nouns are preferred for referential use, leading to a preponderance of metaphorical expression in the language.
	www.telp.com /ilt_nouns.htm (767 words)

	Nouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The definition of a noun is simply a semantic word which is used either as the subject or one of the objects of a statement, or for defining a set using only operators.
		Nouns are the "building blocks" of a sentence -- the verb indicates their relationship, the adjectives modify them, and they themselves are those elements which it is the purpose of the statement to bind together in some way.
		When a noun is in the subject position relative to the verb of the statement (every statement has a verb, though it is possible to form a statement without nouns) it is undeclined -- and this is the only position in which a semantic word is undeclined.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Crete/5555/nouns.htm (1538 words)

	List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants
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	www.encyclopedian.com /co/Collective-nouns-for-fish,-invertebrates-and-plants.html (124 words)

	-= Collective Hyenas Noun =- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many of these collective nouns are beautiful and evocative, even poetic...
		A collective noun is a word that refers to a group...
		is no known evidence of its legitimacy as a collective noun, however.
	www.homeschoolbooksforsale.info (742 words)

	Subject-Verb Agreement
		Subjects and verbs must agree in number; that is, plural subjects take the plural form of verbs and singular subjects take the singular form of verbs.
		Collective nouns: A collective noun is a noun that refers to a group (IV(c), p.
		When the verb indicates that the members of the group are acting as a unit, the collective noun in the subject position is singular.
	www.octech.org /icourses/eng/eng155/S-Vagr.html (1365 words)

	Lesson Twelve: Making that Subject and Verb Agree!
		Collective nouns are nouns that represent a group or a collection of persons.
		When the collective noun is functioning as one unit, you should use a singular verb.
		When the collective noun group is functioning individually, you should use a plural form of the verb.
	www.longview.k12.wa.us /mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/less12.html (1022 words)

	C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi >> Classroom Resouces >> Lesson Plans >> An ...
		The verb after a collective noun is typically in the singular, but it may be in the plural, especially when written in British-style English.
		Each student could be assigned a collective noun and then be asked to find a clip art object that represents his/her collective noun.
		These nouns could be labeled and displayed in the classroom or hallway, used to create a booklet, or used in a presentation.
	www.create.cett.msstate.edu /create/classroom/lplan_view.asp?articleID=122 (954 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)

	Subject-Verb Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The subject of a verb may be singular or plural and it may be first-person (I, we) second-person (you [singular], you [plural]), or third-person (he/she/it, they).
		A collective noun is the name of a group that usually functions like a single unit.
		Like collective nouns, words that state a quantity or an amount usually function like singular subjects, but they can function like plural subjects when they refer to a part of something, not the whole thing.
	rwc.hunter.cuny.edu /reading-writing/on-line/sv.html (1675 words)

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		Subject: Q: Lexicalization of phrases We are looking for references on phrases which may be or may be becoming single lexical items such as "tape measure" or "credit card" or on the processes by which this occurs.
		"The Plural of Nouns and Adjectives in Burushaski." Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap.
		Subject: IATL --Correction of fax number There was an unfortunate error in the fax number given in the last circular of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.5/no.201-250 (13675 words)

	Style Guide \| University of Colorado at Boulder
		Examples included here simply represent some of the problems we see most frequently in documents that come through the Office of Publications and Creative Services.
		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.
	www.colorado.edu /Publications/styleguide/grammar.html (772 words)

	Nouns
		These are some characteristics of nouns we will be examining at the very beginning of this semester.
		For a wonderful overview of nouns which covers all of these subcategories, have a look at Ruth Heller's Merry-Go-Round: A Book about Nouns in the juvenile section of the JBU library.
		A noun is a noun and is likeliest to function as a subject, object, complement, or appositive in a sentence, but it might also function as an adjective or even a verb.
	acadweb.jbu.edu /EGL3363/nouns.htm (897 words)

	Nouns2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Answer: The dictionary lists percentage as a synonym for percent, so we have to face the possibility that attempting to discern a distinction may be mere hair-splitting.
		A word for such a collection does not, of course, currently exist, and it is not often that the Grammar Hotline is permitted to muse about neologisms.
		Collective nouns that define a set of inanimate objects (luggage, dinnerware) are also regularly singular, as are nouns that refer to noncountable masses of substances (bacon, lox).
	www2.ncsu.edu:8010 /ncsu/grammar/Nouns3.html (5659 words)

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		Subject: test normed on speakers of Spanish I have been asked to recommend a test (reading comprehension, vocabulary) normed on native speakers of Spanish (preferably on speakers of Caribbean and Latin American Spanish) to be administered to college students who wish to take advanced literature and other content courses in Spanish.
		Subject: QUERY: NUMERAL CLASSIFIERS In "numeral-classifier languages" such as Vietnamese and Mandarin, it is often claimed that the use of a numeral classifier is "obligatory" when a noun occurs in construction with a numeral.
		Subject: These men and woman A query has been placed asking about the ungrammaticality of: (1) *These man and woman Presumably, the query is based on the idea that, since "man and woman" is semantically plural (in that it refers to two individuals), "these" should be appropriate.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.5/no.051-100 (13162 words)

	Garbl's Editorial Style Manual: C -- includes capitalization
		collective nouns Collective nouns name a group or collection of people, places, things, ideas, actions or qualities, including board, class, committee, crowd, family, group, herd, jury, panel, public, orchestra, staff, team.
		Compliment is a noun or verb for "praise or a flattering remark" and "something free": The supervisor complimented the staff for a job well done.
		No hyphen is necessary within a single proper noun (a Lincoln Park project), a single expression contained in quotation marks: (a "better than promised" attitude), foreign-language phrases (the ad hoc committee), percentages (the 3 percent tax increase) and dollar amounts (a $7 million budget).
	home.comcast.net /~garbl/stylemanual/c.htm (6833 words)

	Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		You are here: Online Encyclopedia > Site Map pg 4 > List of city nicknam...
		List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
		List of collective nouns for objects and concepts
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /index_189.html (141 words)

	Ling 10
		With anticipatory it, there is usually a clause that could serve as the subject of the sentence if the sentence were rewritten without it.
		Collective nouns may take a singular or plural pronoun depending on if the noun acts as a group or as individual members of a group.
		A company is a singular noun, and it should be represented by a singular pronoun (it not they).
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~tsanchez/Ling10PronounsChanges.htm (1053 words)

	Amazon.com: A Rattle of Bones: A Halloween Book of Collective Nouns: Books: Kipling West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A babble of words muddles this holiday romp cum teaching tool, which splices a rhyming text with a set of collective nouns.
		The collective nouns are colorful, more so than the nominal plot, and the two elements don't cohere.
		Taken from several sources, these collective nouns are clever and intriguing: "a GRIMACE of masks," "a LEER of jack-o'-lanterns," "a BRIDGE of trolls," "a RATTLE of bones," and "a CACKLE of hyenas" are some of the descriptive words used in this holiday language lesson.
	www.amazon.com /Rattle-Bones-Halloween-Collective-Nouns/dp/0531301966 (799 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.642: Sound Change, Collective marking
		Michael Kac asks about languages in which there is some kind of verbal morphology indicating a collective interpretation in a sentence such as "John and Bill carried the piano upstairs".
		Generally, only the nouns have collective morphology, but presumably nominal morphology of this sort says something about a preferred interpretation of the activity, as long as the collective is not of the "police, army" type.
		The only example of verbal marking of collectivity that I came across was Hixkaryana, which has collective markers all over the place (so the verb may be agreeing with the noun).
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/2/2-642.html (457 words)

	list of collective nouns - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word list of collective nouns:
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		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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		The Auxiliary Languages Mailing List was formed in 1996 as an offshoot of the Constructed Languages Mailing List, for discussion of issues particularly relating to the design and use of constructed languages as international auxiliary languages.
		Conlangia is a collection of on-line discussion groups for constructed languages.
		An'dorian grammarians divide the parts of speech into the camp of nouns (nouns and words associated with them, such as articles), the camp of verbs (verbs, adverbs, etc.), and "ah zhiidaa" -- "war victims left to die on the field of battle".
	www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk /~jrk/conlang.html (10527 words)

	List of collective nouns by subject A-H at AllExperts
		List of collective nouns by subject A-H at AllExperts
		List of collective nouns by subject A-H: Encyclopedia BETA
		This is a list of collective nouns by subject, beginning from A to H. aardvarks
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/li/list_of_collective_nouns_by_subject_a-h.htm (107 words)

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