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The plural concord here may also be reinforced by notional concord, since board, as a collective noun, can be notionally plural.
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In the above examples the reciprocal takes a singular collective noun as its antecedent.
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In other words, the base is no longer a collective noun when the plural marker is added.
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Accordingly, compatibility with a plural verb will no longer be considered to be a necessary characteristic of a collective noun.
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But what to use for the collective noun?
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It is not so much a plural but a collective noun, and can you not perfectly well have, "livestock, animal" and the singular after it?
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I am trying to think of a collective noun for " wet".
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It is always unfortunate when we have a collective noun which is used frequently, because it tends to become stylised in people's minds.
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I now discover that the collective noun for buyers and sellers is a "concourse
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