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Name for a group or collection of
objects.
Besides considering persons, animals, and things
separately, we may think of them in groups, and appropriate names to the
groups.
Thus, men in groups may
be called a crowd, or a mob, a committee, or a
council, or a congress, etc.
These are called COLLECTIVE NOUNS. They properly
belong under common nouns, because each group is considered as a unit, and the
name applied to it belongs to any group of its class.
Names for things thought of in
mass.
6. The definition given for
common nouns applies more strictly to class nouns. It may, however, be
correctly used for another group of nouns detailed below; for they are common
nouns in the sense that the names apply to every particle of similar
substance, instead of to each individual or separate object. |
