Voorbeelden van collective noun

• 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.