Collective nouns / собирательные существительные в английском языке

Introduction……………………………………………………………………..2
2. The noun……………………………………………………………………….3
3. Collective nouns……………………………………………………………….4
- Singular or Plural Verbs?............................................................................5
- American vs. British Usage……………………………………………….....6
4. Metonymic merging of grammatical number………………………………….7
5. Terms of venery (words for groups of animals)……………………………...8
6. The list of examples of collective nouns……………………………………...9
7. Exercises………………………………………………………………………..11
8. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..15
9. References……………………………………………………………………...16

By way of introduction it will be natural to stress that the noun is an important part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive. It is common knowledge that there are many types of nouns that can be used in the English language. (Proper Nouns, common nous, countable nouns, uncountable nouns, collective nouns, abstract nouns, concrete nouns). My work is fully concerned with collective nouns, the most interesting ones from my point of view.
It’s necessary to point out right from the beginning that 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 fish). These nouns have slightly different grammatical properties than other nouns. For example, the noun phrases that they head can serve as the subject of a collective predicate, even when they are inflected for.

Реферат, МПГУ, Москва, 2015 год, 16 страниц
Definition of collective nouns
Use of plural or singular form
Terms of venery
List of examples
Определение собирательных существительных
Использование множественной и единственной формы
Примеры