| What these two would-be grammar gurus are talking about here is mass nouns, not collective nouns. |
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| Had I stumbled on a right-wing plot to subvert the semantics of English collective nouns? |
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| The usual collective nouns – pod and school – strangely compressed and buttoned down, are all wrong. |
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| These are collective nouns for a number of schools joining together to share and develop learning communities. |
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| In American English, collective nouns usually take a singular verb. |
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| The question of why verbs and pronouns tend to vary in the extent to which they agree with collective nouns is a topic of some interest in psycholinguistics. |
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| British English refers to some collective nouns such as crowd or data as plural, so it is appropriate to use these or those in British English. |
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| A show based on collective nouns, suggested by Karen, prompted comic moments. |
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| British English differs from American English in using collective nouns. |
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| A hundred, a thousand, few, many, are to be considered as collective nouns, and distinguished as such, by the singular article. |
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| A tendency to drop grammatical number in collective nouns, stronger in British English than in North American English, exists. |
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| Although many languages treat collective nouns as singular, in others they may be interpreted as plural. |
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| Generally, collective nouns are not mass nouns, but rather are a special subset of count nouns. |
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| As collective nouns have only been introduced by ostension until now, perhaps some further elucidation is in order. |
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| Along the way, readers will also learn collective nouns and practise counting. |
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| Where do these collective nouns originate? |
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| There are around 200 collective nouns in the English language. |
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| Collective nouns as well as mass nouns are usually considered singulare tantum. |
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