| 单词 | collective noun |
| 释义 | collective noun noun[C] languagespecializeduk/kəˌlek.tɪv ˈnaʊn/us/kəˌlek.tɪv ˈnaʊn/anounthatdescribesagroupof things orpeopleas aunit: 集合名词"Family" and "flock" areexamplesofcollectivenouns.family 和 flock 是集合名词。 Linguistics: parts of speech
Examplesofcollective nouncollective noun Bostick's entertainingly illustrated contribution to the book consists of a salvo of plasmoids (if that is the appropriatecollectivenoun). From theCambridge English Corpus Formally,collectivenounforms such as a group of people are represented by second-order variables, or by first-order variables standing for sets (which are well-defined objects in mathematics and logic). From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Familiar examples are 'police' and 'people', apart from the large set of collective nouns like 'committee', 'government', 'family', 'mob'. From theCambridge English Corpus Incorrect use of collective nouns was found to be the easiest detectable error, followed by word order distortions. From theCambridge English Corpus Concord with collective nouns revisited. From theCambridge English Corpus The plural concord here may also be reinforced by notional concord, since board, as acollectivenoun, can be notionally plural. From theCambridge English Corpus In the above examples the reciprocal takes a singularcollectivenounas its antecedent. From theCambridge English Corpus In other words, the base is no longer acollectivenounwhen the plural marker is added. From theCambridge English Corpus Accordingly, compatibility with a plural verb will no longer be considered to be a necessary characteristic of acollectivenoun. From theCambridge English Corpus But what to use for thecollectivenoun? From theCambridge English Corpus It is not so much a plural but acollectivenoun, and can you not perfectly well have, "livestock, animal" and the singular after it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am trying to think of acollectivenounfor " wet". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is always unfortunate when we have acollectivenounwhich is used frequently, because it tends to become stylised in people's minds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I now discover that thecollectivenounfor buyers and sellers is a "concourse". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think "panoply" is probably the bestcollectivenounto use in connection with our hospital matrons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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