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a noun that names a particular group of people or things, e.g. a flock of birds, a herd of cattle; a committee of members, a team of players. Although collective nouns imply more than one thing, they take the singular verb, e.g. The committee is meeting today.
register that uses correct grammar and conventions of style and maintains a distance between the...
punctuation mark at the end of a sentence (e.g. The sky is blue.) or at the end of an...
some pronouns always take a singular verb, e.g. no-one, none, nobody, everybody.
a female character in a literary work, often the protagonist, that is admired or identified with...
a pronoun that emphasises the person referred to The suffix -self to the word concerned, e.g....