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Bostick's entertainingly illustrated contribution to the book consists of a salvo of plasmoids (if that is the appropriate collective noun).
Formally, collective noun forms such as a group of people are represented by second-order variables, or by first-order variables standing for sets (which are well-defined objects in mathematics and logic).
Familiar examples are 'police' and 'people', apart from the large set of collective nouns like 'committee', 'government', 'family', 'mob'.
Incorrect use of collective nouns was found to be the easiest detectable error, followed by word order distortions.
Concord with collective nouns revisited.
The plural concord here may also be reinforced by notional concord, since board, as a collective noun, can be notionally plural.
In the above examples the reciprocal takes a singular collective noun as its antecedent.
In other words, the base is no longer a collective noun when the plural marker is added.
Accordingly, compatibility with a plural verb will no longer be considered to be a necessary characteristic of a collective noun.
But what to use for the collective noun?
It is not so much a plural but a collective noun, and can you not perfectly well have, "livestock, animal" and the singular after it?
I am trying to think of a collective noun for " wet".
It is always unfortunate when we have a collective noun which is used frequently, because it tends to become stylised in people's minds.
I now discover that the collective noun for buyers and sellers is a "concourse".
I think "panoply" is probably the best collective noun to use in connection with our hospital matrons.
