Examples of collective noun

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It is thus misleading to describe the class of collective nouns as a monolithic whole.
In contrast, abstract nouns, collective nouns, and mass nouns usually take -u, as do most borrowings and most foreign place names.
Few collective nouns (camps) were identified with reference groups.
For verbs, it is therefore a reasonable conclusion that the singular is the unmarked alternative with collective nouns.
Summing up the discussion of markedness in connection with agreement with collective nouns, we may classify singular verbs and plural pronouns as the unmarked alternatives.
Thus, even when they are singular in form, collective nouns are plural in meaning.
They cling to the balcony, midway between the noun ' ' rain ' ' and the absent noun ' ' puddle, ' ' both strangely singular and collective nouns.
In turn, the category of collective nouns is left out here, as there were barely any occurrences.
More detailed considerations, however, would remove us too far from the present aim, that of checking verbal concord with collective nouns.
Two absences from this list are second-person plural pronouns and collective nouns.
We would therefore expect low-frequency nouns to be good indicators of where agreement with collective nouns is moving, since they are less likely to have firmly entrenched agreement patterns.
As one might expect, cases of notional concord are fewer, as this principle mainly applies where collective nouns are present, but 31 and 32 are probable instances.
Likewise, the data show an increase of s-genitives with collective nouns, particularly in the twentieth century.
It should also be noted that the use without a determiner of these singular collective nouns is not restricted to the subject position, as in the examples we have given.
On concord with collective nouns.
My preoccupation is that collective nouns shall take the singular.
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