How To Use Collective noun In A Sentence
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The term mob is Australian English as the accepted collective noun for a group of Kangaroos, from the hoitytoity mobilus vulgaris.
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Take our changing use of collective nouns to describe the groups of people we work with.
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We are alone until we stumble upon a flamboyance of flamingos (what a pleasing collective noun).
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There are some lovely examples of peculiar collective nouns in the English language, like an exultation of larks, a pride of lions, a cete of badgers and a convocation of eagles.
A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow
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Question 2 To what groups do the following collective nouns refer?
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There must be a collective noun for these sorry plastic boxes: a good intention?
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Is there a collective noun for that?
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There must be a collective noun for these sorry plastic boxes: a good intention?
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A better collective noun might be a kindness.
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Had I stumbled on a right-wing plot to subvert the semantics of English collective nouns?
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What is the collective noun for this group?
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Some grammarians have insisted that people is a collective noun that should not be used as a substitute for persons when referring to a specific number of individuals.
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What is the collective noun for a group of architects?
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Animal collective nouns owe their origins to our pleasure-seeking forebears rather than scientists.
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In American English, collective nouns usually take a singular verb.
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Take our changing use of collective nouns to describe the groups of people we work with.
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There must be a collective noun for these sorry plastic boxes: a good intention?
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English collective nouns reflect intense literary thought.
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'Family' and 'flock' are examples of collective nouns.
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'Flock' and 'committee' are collective nouns.
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Collective nouns for magpies include gulp and murder.
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There is no collective noun for a group of CEOs but perhaps it should be an enterprise.
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A noun signifying many, is called a _collective noun_, or _noun of multitude_; as, the _people_, the _army_.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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Flock" is a collective noun.
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If only there were a collective noun for poets: a poverty of poets, perhaps, or a pontification.
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The question of why verbs and pronouns tend to vary in the extent to which they agree with collective nouns is a topic of some interest in psycholinguistics.
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The connection between collective nouns and the groups they identify are unique and often funny.
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Our collective noun is an Apprehension of Agents.
