Essays about: "collective nouns"

Found 2 essays containing the words collective nouns.

  1. 1. The Rest of the Family Is or Are? : A quantitative analysis of collective nouns that are pre-modified by quantifying noun expressions in British and American English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Petros Kairis; [2017]
    Keywords : collective nouns; quantifying noun expressions; concord preferences of collectives; singular; plural; British English; American English;

    Abstract : Collective nouns are a category of nouns that refer to a group of people or things. This group of nouns has the special characteristic that when in singular form, they can be followed by either a singular or a plural verb. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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