Essays about: "Petra Örlegård"

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  1. 1. Collective nouns in English used in Sweden : A corpus-based study on number concord with collective nouns

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Petra Örlegård; [2014]
    Keywords : agreement; American English; British English; collective nouns; concord; corpus; news genre; plurality; singularity; Sweden;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Swedes writing in English construct number concord with collective nouns. This was done by studying three primary corpora: the Swedish English Newspaper Corpus (SWENC) and the press sections of Frown (American English) and F-LOB (British English). READ MORE