Sökning: "collective nouns"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden collective nouns.

1. 1. The Rest of the Family Is or Are? : A quantitative analysis of collective nouns that are pre-modified by quantifying noun expressions in British and American English

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Petros Kairis; [2017]
   Nyckelord :collective nouns; quantifying noun expressions; concord preferences of collectives; singular; plural; British English; American English;

   Sammanfattning : Collective nouns are a category of nouns that refer to a group of people or things. This group of nouns has the special characteristic that when in singular form, they can be followed by either a singular or a plural verb. LÄS MER

3. 2. Collective nouns in English used in Sweden : A corpus-based study on number concord with collective nouns

   Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Petra Örlegård; [2014]
   Nyckelord :agreement; American English; British English; collective nouns; concord; corpus; news genre; plurality; singularity; Sweden;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Swedes writing in English construct number concord with collective nouns. This was done by studying three primary corpora: the Swedish English Newspaper Corpus (SWENC) and the press sections of Frown (American English) and F-LOB (British English). LÄS MER