英语词汇“collective noun”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

noun

a noun that is singular in form but that refers to a group of people or things

▶ 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 ratherthan 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 singularand 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

单词	collective noun
释义	Word Frequency collective noun noun a noun that is singular in form but that refers to a group of people or things ▶ 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 ratherthan 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 singularand 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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