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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- collective noun
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[grammar]
集合名词（如crowd，people，troop和herd）
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[grammar]
集合名词（如crowd，people，troop和herd）
Collins English-English Dictionary
- collective noun
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a noun that is singular in form but that refers to a group of people or things
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[Usage]
Collective nouns are usually used with singular verbs: the family is on holiday; General Motors is mounting a big sales campaign. In British usage, however, plural verbs are sometimes employed in this context, esp when reference is being made to a collection of individual objects or people rather than to the group as a unit: the family are all on holiday. Care should be taken that the same collective noun is not treated as both singular and plural in the same sentence: the family is well and sends its best wishes or the family are all well and send their best wishes, but not the family is well and send their best wishes
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a noun that is singular in form but that refers to a group of people or things
Examples
- the collective effort of the students
- 学生们的共同努力 → collective
- a collective farm
- 集体农庄 → collective
- a predicate noun or adjective
- 谓语名词或形容词 → predicate
- a verbal noun
- 动词状名词，动名词 → verbal
- a noun which has two senses
- 一个有两种释义的名词 → sense
- ``puella'' is a first-declension noun in Latin → declension
- these rules will generate all the noun phrases in English → generate
- a governor noun → governor
- a noun phrase → noun
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