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collective noun |
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collective noun Noun a noun that is singular in form but that refers to a group of people or things, as crowd or army
USAGE: Collective nouns are usually used with singular verbs: the family is on holiday; General Motors is mounting a big sales campaign. In British usage, however, plural verbs are sometimes employed in this context, esp. where reference is being made to a collection of individual objects or people rather than to the group as a unit: the family are all on holiday. Care should be taken that the same collective noun is not treated as both singular and plural in the same sentence: the family is well and sends its best wishes or the family are all well and send their best wishes, but not the family is well and send their best wishes. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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If it's "a flock of swans" and "a bevy of beauties," would the collective noun be "an assemble of ballet directors"? We may have the makings of a new collective noun here. b) TEI believes the term "public" may be too narrow; it technically may not include foreign individuals or corporations; it is also a "mass or collective noun," whereas the IRS may wish to stress that it wants to interact with its "customers" on a one-on-one, individual basis. |
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