| 单词 | collective noun |
| 例句 | I can’t imagine it’s unknown, but “An Exaltation of Larks,” by James Lipton, is a book on collective nouns that I read from often, and I wish more people knew about it. Lupita Nyong’o Had a Guilty Pleasure on the Set of ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Obscure collective nouns for animals include a “kindle of kittens,” a “murmuration of starlings” and a “WTF of platypuses.” Style Invitational Week 1314: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Before shooing them away we Google their collective noun: a "lamentation" of swans. Stars go wild in the countryside 2011-08-06T23:05:32Z Fans of collective nouns know that it’s a murder of crows, a wisdom of wombats, and a coalition of cheetahs, but what do you call a gathering of Neil Youngs? Watch Neil Young Perform With 'Neil Young' on 'The Tonight Show' 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet, we are in a crisis, where most people's primary identity is on the adjective before the hyphen, not on the collective noun, American. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Yet, we are in a crisis, where most people's primary identity is on the adjective before the hyphen, not on the collective noun, American. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z She arrives at the following collective noun: “a rothschild of rich people.” Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z While 2017 has been an awful year for women in film in most respects, it has thrown up a riot – or whatever the collective noun for mums ought to be – of complex on-screen mothers. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The collective noun for vigilantes, cowboys and rappers dressed as clowns. Caligula with Mary Beard – TV review 2013-07-30T06:01:00Z If that Strawberry Cough strain in the “Leafly Guide” has loosened your tongue, it would be very cool to recite a litany of the quirky collective nouns we’ve bequeathed the animal kingdom. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Oh, it’s done all sorts of other things — “it” being the collective noun for all of the computers I’ve owned or used over the past 35 years. Perspective | My computer ate a month’s worth of emails. Somehow, it’s my fault. 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z What’s the collective noun for a group of racist white women? The five most terrifying performances by women at the RNC – ranked! | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Did he just coin a new collective noun? Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Words like ‘epicenter’ can be used in different contexts. Deal with it. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z I think of my tumor cells as a hawks’ boil — the collective noun for two or three raptors when they circle their prey. Waiting for the Monsoon, Discovering a Brain Tumor Instead 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z That may have given rise to another collective noun: enemy of the people. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Move on from gotcha moments in White House reporting 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Take the collective noun for people accessing treatment. Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z In Greek mythology tales of haunting journeys down the rivers of the dead are sufficiently common that they have their own collective noun: katabasis. Underland by Robert Macfarlane review – a dazzling journey into deep time 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Four-hundred pounders roam the land, for sure, although most of the adult pigs in a sounder—the collective noun—weigh between 100 and 200 pounds. Hog Heaven To Hell - Golf Digest 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Then, for reasons obscure to me, the following pages are devoted to collective nouns for groups of beasts. Waiting for the Monsoon, Discovering a Brain Tumor Instead 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The headline on Margaret Sullivan’s June 10 Style column, “What the media has lost since Watergate,” used “media” as a collective noun. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Move on from gotcha moments in White House reporting 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Does the collective noun of service user really cut it for them? Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Quick grammar question: what is the collective noun for a group of middle-class men? Pain is political – we're unequal even when we're suffering | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z It gives that right to "the people", a collective noun, based on the necessity of a "well-regulated militia". Opinion | The Debate That Goes Nowhere 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z You might perceive Minnesota as only for Vikings, Twins, Karl-Anthony Towns or the bizarre collective noun “Wild.” P.J. Fleck wants you to notice Minnesota football 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Autograph chasers, as they are known in the biz, lack a collective noun: a desperation, perhaps? Signs of the Times - Golf Digest 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Or that the collective noun for a posse of fireflies is a sprinkle? How a smack of jellyfish helped win a £5,000 book prize - BBC News 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z However, the gag got me thinking about modern gaps in grammar and the collective nouns best suited for contemporary times. Pain is political – we're unequal even when we're suffering | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z I then discovered the collective noun for crows is 'murder' - I interpreted meaning to that, of what I'd done in the hospital. Post-partum psychosis: Why I thought I'd killed my baby - BBC News 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Fragmented though they may be, the media are still a collective noun. Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “It has yet to be decided on what the collective noun should be for a group of stadium announcers,” wrote Daniel Schofield of the London Telegraph. Let’s see what he says when it’s time for a new contract 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The colourful adventure follows a child's journey which teaches the reader some unusual collective nouns. How a smack of jellyfish helped win a £5,000 book prize - BBC News 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z I'm not sure what the collective noun should be - a dagger, a poison pen? Crime wave: Why are so many writers inspired by East Anglia? - BBC News 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z On Twitter, many journalists and politicians were quick to notice the PM’s choice of collective noun, several pointing out that the gag appeared to be a scripted response, rather than a slip of the tongue. How David Cameron has described refugees in the past 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Now Cohen's official page is asking what a collective noun for such people should be - as in a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese and so on. A contemplation of Cohenites?: Leonard's fans look for a label 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z When the intent is to refer to the individual members of a collection, a collective noun takes a plural verb. Understanding politics, and grammar 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The raccoon, who was on his own so does not get a collective noun, was photographed by a crane operator more than 200 metres up a skyscraper. Zebras roam free in Brussels, and other animals at large 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z This collective noun provides a window on to British history. Ten of the best collective nouns 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Off they went, bombing it over the two-mile course, followed by whatever the collective noun is for a great gaggle of bonnet-sporting cyclists, including couples on tandems. Seven singular sports from the Victorian era 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Coming up with appropriate collective nouns for practitioners of the subdisciplines is an entertaining pastime in an of itself. Collective Nouns for Mathematicians 2014-01-14T18:15:01.882Z When the intent is to refer to the collection as a unitary whole, a collective noun takes a singular verb. Understanding politics, and grammar 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z "Know your enemy" is, after all, one of the first instructions of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, so we should use the correct collective noun. The Spin 2013-04-23T11:31:58Z Like most collective nouns, this one is 15th century in origin and shows how much of a game the invention of such terms had become by the mid-1400s. Ten of the best collective nouns 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z In this case, he says the “dumber” is “the power,” the collective noun Russians use to describe their rulers. Letter from Europe: Putin Foes Have an Ally in Best-Selling Author 2012-11-09T13:10:05Z Please share your favorite mathematical collective nouns with me! Collective Nouns for Mathematicians 2014-01-14T18:15:01.882Z Project – the collective noun for massive bags of cash. The Fiver 2012-08-09T15:52:13Z Milton. µ The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This is a comparatively recent addition to the collective noun canon, appearing for the first time in print in CE Hare's 1939 hunting and fishing manual The Language of Field Sports. Ten of the best collective nouns 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z When thought of merely as indicating an aggregate, a unit, the collective noun takes a singular verb; if regarded as a collection of units, it takes the plural verb.... Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z Every once in a while I stumble on an interesting collective noun, usually for animals: a parliament of owls, a knot of toads, an exaltation of larks. Collective Nouns for Mathematicians 2014-01-14T18:15:01.882Z A group of words which, like a collective noun, is plural in form but singular in meaning; as, Thirty dollars is what I paid for the ring. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Nor is it simply the collective noun for atomised private citizens. Give me William the Conqueror's big society over David Cameron's any day 2011-01-31T21:00:01Z At first glance, it's hard to believe that this collective noun was in use a full 500 years ago. Ten of the best collective nouns 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Some linguistic uses connected with collective nouns will offer a point of departure. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z However, a collective noun, when it is used to refer more particularly to individuals than to the mass, is plural, as The crowd was orderly, but, The crowd threw up their hats. The Style Book of The Detroit News A collective noun that denotes a group of objects acting as one thing; as, The crowd is scattering. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Notice how the collective noun, gioguð, singular at first both in form and function, gradually loses its oneness before the close of the sentence is reached, and becomes plural. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary If the subject is a collective noun, one may regard it as either singular or plural. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Lastly,—The angel cannot well be a collective noun; for we nowhere meet with the ideal person of the angel, as comprehending within himself a real plurality. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 In using collective nouns beware of mixing the number. The Style Book of The Detroit News A collective noun denoting plurality; that is, referring to the individuals that compose the group; as, The class are all studious. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Oh, these unhappy collective nouns, what have they not to answer for! The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed What can you say of the use of the verb with collective nouns? Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses But the king mentioned there is no collective noun. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 And this alleged necessity for a masculine or feminine implication is assigned as a part of the reason why these abstract nouns and collective nouns became personalized. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I A collective noun is a name which in the singular denotes a collection. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z For, in fact, both in Hebrew and Greek, as in English, “seed” is a collective noun, and does mean many in the singular. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Several consider the "prophet" as a collective noun, and understand thereby the prophets of all times. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 The number of the verb that shall accompany a collective noun depends upon whether the idea of the multiplicity of individuals, or that of the unity of the aggregate, shall predominate. A Handbook of the English Language In Middle English 'moe,' or 'mo,' was used of number and with collective nouns; 'more' had reference specifically to size. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar To antecedents that are collective nouns of unity? Practical Grammar and Composition Faults of agreement of verbs and participles in number when collective nouns are referred to. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story To speak, in such a case, of a collective noun, as is usually done, is out of place. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Note that “their” refers to the collective noun “sex.” The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric A noun signifying many, is called a collective noun, or noun of multitude; as, the people, the army. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Mention collective nouns that will embrace groups of each of the following individual nouns:— manhorsebirdfishpartridgepupilbeesoldierbooksailorchildsheepshipruffian 4. An English Grammar But the love of God implies surely the individual; love has little content indeed if its object is merely a collective noun, an abstract, a concept. The Jesus of History A common mistake is to use the plural forms with singular collective nouns, as "kind," "class," "sort." Practical Exercises in English A collective noun takes a singular or plural verb, according as the collection is thought of as a whole or as composed of individuals. Composition-Rhetoric A collective noun or noun of multitude, conveying unity of idea, generally has a verb or pronoun agreeing with it in the singular; as, "The meeting was large, and it held three hours." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures A collective noun, or noun of multitude, is the name of many individuals together; as, Council, meeting, committee, flock. The Grammar of English Grammars It is a prepossession which all of us received in our infancy with our first lessons in grammar, that collective nouns, the names of genera and species, do not designate realities. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery What is said of the number of collective nouns? Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition None Although literally signifying no one, the word none may be used with a plural verb, having the force of a collective noun. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking The next point is, that in each case the singular is used; in the case of the domestic animals this fact is lost to the English reader by the use of the collective noun "cattle." Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science A collective noun, or noun of multitude, is the name of many individuals together. The Grammar of English Grammars The word plurality, like other collective nouns, is literally singular: as, "To produce the latter, a plurality of objects is necessary." The Grammar of English Grammars Of a Verb with a Nominative; under which, the collective noun with a verb of either number, is noticed in an observation. The Grammar of English Grammars Collective Noun When a noun of multitude or collective noun is the antecedent, the pronoun, like the verb, must be plural or singular according to the sense intended to be conveyed. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking When the antecedent is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, the Pronoun must agree with it in the plural number. The Grammar of English Grammars But these, and many similar words, may be taken plurally without the s, because a collective noun is the name of many individuals together. The Grammar of English Grammars When the nominative is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, the Verb must agree with it in the plural number. The Grammar of English Grammars When the collective noun conveys the idea of unity, the verb must be singular. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking |
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