In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific...
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List of animal names (redirect from List of collective nouns by collective term A-K)
taxon A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Usage of collective nouns Notes Further reading External links The terms in this table apply...
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In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity...
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In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and...
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Predicate (grammar) (redirect from Collective predicate)
and its predicate is sometimes called a nexus. A predicative nominal is a noun phrase: in the sentence George III is the king of England, the phrase the...
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Look up count noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun that can be modified by a quantity...
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Plural (redirect from Plural nouns)
category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than the default quantity represented by that noun. This default quantity is most...
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Singulative number (redirect from Noun of unity)
number and collective number (abbreviated SGV and COL) are terms used when the grammatical number for multiple items is the unmarked form of a noun, and the...
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Grammatical gender (redirect from Noun gender)
linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related...
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Shock (section Collective noun)
Look up shock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shock may refer to: Acute stress reaction, also known as psychological or mental shock Shell shock, soldiers'...
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