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Collective Nouns
Collective nouns are nouns that refer to groups consisting of more than one individual or entity, even when they are inflected for the singular. Examples include "Committee," "herd" and "school" (of herring). These nouns have slightly different grammatical properties than other nouns. For example, the noun phrases that they head can serve of the subject of a collective predicate, even when they are inflected for the singular. A collective predicate is a predicate that normally can't take a singular subject. An example of the latter is "surround the house." p> Good: The boys surrounded the house. p> Bad: * The boy surrounded the house. p> Good: The committee surrounded the house. h3> Concrete nouns and abstract nouns
Concrete nouns refer to definite objects-objects in which you use at least one of your senses. For instance, "chair", "apple", or "Janet". Abstract nouns on the other hand refer to ideas or concepts, such as "Justice" or "hate". While this distinction is sometimes useful, the boundary between the two of them is not always clear. In English, many abstract nouns are formed by adding noun-forming suffixes ("-ness", "-Ity", "-tion") to adjectives or verbs. Examples are "Happiness", "circulation" and "serenity". <В
Nouns and pronouns
Noun phrases can be replaced by pronouns, such as "He", "it", "which", and "those", in order to avoid repetition or explicit identification, or for other reasons. For example, in the sentence "Janet thought that he was weird", the word "He" is a pronoun standing in place of the name of the person in question. The English word one can replace parts of noun phrases, and it sometimes stands in for a noun. An example is given below:
John's car is newer than the one that Bill has. p> But one can also stand in for bigger subparts of a noun phrase. For example, in the following example, one can stand in for new car. p> This new car is cheaper than that one. p> LIST
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In linguistics, grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of quantity through inflection or agreement. As an example, consider the English sentences below:
That apple on the table is fresh. p> Those two apples on the table are fresh. p> The number of apples is marked on the noun - "Apple", singular number (one item) vs. "Apples", plural number (more than one item) -, on the demonstrative, "that/those", and on the verb, "is/are". Note that, especially in the second sentence, this information can be considered redundant, since quantity is already indicated by the numeral "two".
A language has grammatical number when its nouns are subdivided into morphological classes according to the quantity they express, such that:
Every noun belongs to a single number class. (Number partitions nouns into disjoint classes.)
Noun modifiers (Such as adjectives) and verbs have different forms for each number class, and must be inflected to match the number of the nouns they refer to. (Number is an agreement category.) p> This is the case in English: every noun is either singular or plural (a few, such as "fish", can be either, according to context), and at least some modifiers of nouns - namely the demonstratives, the personal pronouns, the articles, and verbs - are inflected to agree with the number of the nouns they refer to: "this car" and "these cars" are correct, while "* this cars" or "* these car" are ungrammatical.
Not all languages ​​have number as a grammatical category. In those that do not, quantity must be expressed either directly, with numerals, or indirectly, through optional quantifiers. However, many of these languages ​​compensate for the lack of grammatical number with an extensive system of measure words.
The word "number" is also used in linguistics to describe the distinction between certain grammatical aspects that indicate the number of times an event occurs, such as the semelfactive aspect, the iterative aspect, etc. For that use of the term, see "Grammatical aspect". br/>В
Semantic vs. grammatical number
All languages ​​are able to specify the quantity of referents. They may do so by lexical means with words such as English a few , some , one , two , five hundred . However, not every language has a grammatical category of number. Grammatical number is expressed by morphological and/or syntactic means. That is, it is indicated by certain grammatical elements, such as through affixes or number words. Grammatical number may be thought of as the indication of semantic...
