| 11. | Which nouns are treated as collective nouns by the British?
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| 12. | An archaic collective noun for a group of jackdaws is a " clattering ".
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| 13. | I have read some info regarding collective nouns here, as well as other places.
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| 14. | Examples of this include collective nouns like " committee ".
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| 15. | :: 1 : There is an article on collective nouns.
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| 16. | The preceding two morphemes are pluralizers of non-collective nouns.
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| 17. | See List of collective nouns for objects and concepts.
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| 18. | In American English, collective nouns almost invariably take singular verb forms ( formal agreement ).
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| 19. | A collective noun usually modified by a sigh and a mumbled " same ol'. . ."
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| 20. | In other languages, singulatives can be regularly formed from collective nouns; e . g . gender.
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