Collective Nouns Family Single Or Plural WordReference Forums
Sep 23 2008 nbsp 0183 32 Hi lune97 Did you have a look at this previous thread on the subject Collective nouns Family single or plural American English speakers tend to view this issue differently from British English speakers
My Family Is are Arguing WordReference Forums, Jan 24 2008 nbsp 0183 32 Collective nouns are nouns which stand for a group or collection of people or things and include words such as audience committee police crew family government group team and many others
Collective Nouns The Family lt is Are gt Sitting
May 4 2007 nbsp 0183 32 Hallo I know that in English the police are doing something or the United States is very powerful but what about quot The family is or are sitting round the breakfast table quot I think either way is correct am I right
Leadership collective Noun Singular Or Plural , Apr 29 2011 nbsp 0183 32 In BrE in particular collective nouns can take either singular or plural verbs depending on whether the speaker writer is thinking of the noun as an entity or as a group of individuals
Collective Nouns A Crowd Of People WERE Or A Crowd Of
Collective Nouns A Crowd Of People WERE Or A Crowd Of , Dec 5 2010 nbsp 0183 32 If you put collective nouns into Dictionary and Thread title search or click on the relevant link in the frequently raised topics list mentioned above you ll be taken to a large number of previous discussions about particular cases
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Collective Noun WordReference Forums
Collective Noun WordReference Forums Apr 11 2010 nbsp 0183 32 As you know a quot collective noun quot denotes a group of things in general A quot unit noun quot denotes a single specimen of that group For example is a collective noun referring to quot fish quot in general and is a unit noun referring to quot one fish quot
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Feb 16 2010 nbsp 0183 32 quot Police quot is a collective noun that can be either singular or plural depending on the context If you say quot the police do quot you refer to the individual police officers while quot the police does quot refers to the whole force as a unit In this particular context the writer probably refers to the police as an entity getting involved in politics rather than the individual members Police Is are Does do singular Vs Plural WordReference Forums. Apr 3 2006 nbsp 0183 32 But blueberrymuffin has raised the interesting question of the couple the collective noun right on the boundary between one ness and more than one ness It seems to me that in this particular case the AE and BE usage is closer together not the same just closer together May 29 2005 nbsp 0183 32 a collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects where objects can be people animals emotions inanimate things concepts OK so what about government is this a colletive noun or an abstract noun defining a constitutional political entity Besides a collective noun usually denotes an entity at the same time
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