Posts Tagged ‘noun’

  • The collective corrective

    Posted by Drew Stanley on July 15, 2009

    Collective nouns are tricky beasts. Or is the concept of collective nouns a tricky beast?
    The question of whether a collective noun requires a singular or plural verb to agree with it is one many find difficult to grasp, including myself, but then I have the mighty brains of the dictionary team here to help me. [...]

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  • Beyond the usual

    Posted by Susan Jellis on April 27, 2009

    That somebody might find raising funds difficult in these problematic financial times is certainly not beyond belief. That they might say, describing their plight, that ‘Getting the financing was beyond difficult’ may be more surprising.
    We’re used to things being beyond recognition, beyond a doubt/beyond reasonable doubt, beyond a joke, beyond expectations or beyond our wildest [...]

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