Collective nouns and the verb 'to be' Sample Clauses

Collective nouns and the verb 'to be'. In this section, as already mentioned in the section above, we will use the verb 'to be' , since it is the most common verb used in the English language. More specifically, we shall search the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) for all collective noun subjects followed by different forms of the verb to be in the Simple Present Tense, to see how frequently the collective nouns are used with specific verb forms. We shall see, according to these results, if the collective nouns occur more frequently with the singular or plural verb form. When we started our analysis, we searched the corpus, for example, for the collective noun army followed by the verb form is. By doing that we got a total of 3,879 results. But then we encountered some problems. For instance, we were looking for sentences which have the collective noun army as head noun (e.g. The army is spending about $75 million on building additional barracks.) and not sentences like the following examples: (4.1) The active duty force of the British Army is more than 212,000 strong, making it the second largest army in the European Union behind France. (xxxx://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx/) (4.2) The idea of a professional army is increasingly popular in Spain, too. (The Economist. London: The Economist Newspaper Ltd, 1991) Because in Example 4.1 the head noun of the phrase is the noun duty and in Example 4.2 the head noun is the noun idea, we cannot use these, or similar sentences in our analysis. Therefore, we excluded all sentences where the noun army was not head noun, and after doing that we got a total of 3,266 results for army is. We did the same thing for army are. First, when we typed army are into the search box we got 518 results, but after excluding all sentences where the noun army was not head noun we had 476 results left. We repeated this action for every collective noun from our list. Although we did our best to select only the sentences which have the collective nouns as head nouns, we are still aware of the fact that some results may not be entirely correct. Since the selection was done only by one person, some sentences may have been overlooked and left in our analysis. According to Xxxxx (1994:63) 'there appears to be a general trend for singular concord', so, too see if this also goes for the collective nouns that we are studying, we will look at our data, summarized below in Table 4.1 and Graph 4.1. Family 14,021 5,035 Gang 304 201 Government 16,998 972 Group 14,338 1,...
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