A collective noun, or noun of multitude, is the name of many individuals together; as, Council, meeting, committee, flock.

[Greek: Ho òn] is the verbal noun of [Greek: hos esti], not of [Greek: egô eimí].

Women with the accent of college classrooms; women who made plural nouns the running mates of singular verbs; women who were novices in housework; women drilled in drudgery from childhoodall expanding, all dwelling in a democracy that had begun its life afresh in a new land, and all with the wonder of gardens where there had been only sagebrush in their beings.

But this "singular noun with a plural termination," as Webster describes it, more probably originated from the Latin verb submoneas, used in the writ, and came to us through the jargon of law, in which we sometimes hear men talk of "summonsing witnesses.

But some late authors(J. S. Hart, S. S. Greene, W. H. Wells, and others) have given the name of participial nouns to many participles,such participles, often, as retain all their verbal properties and adjuncts, and merely partake of some syntactical resemblance to nouns.

Is it a case which "has usually the nominative form," but admits occasionally of "me" and "him," and embraces objective nouns of "time, measure, distance, direction, or place?"

Shrift is the abstract noun derived from it.

The Latin grammarians usually class them with nouns; consequently their nouns are divided into nouns substantive and nouns adjective.

19.The word as, though usually a conjunction or an adverb, has sometimes the construction of a relative pronoun, especially after such, so many, or as many; and, whatever the antecedent noun may be, this is the only fit relative to follow any of these terms in a restrictive sense.

When any adjective or common noun is made a distinct part of a compound proper name, it ought to begin with a capital; as, "The United States, the Argentine Republic, the Peak of Teneriffe, the Blue Ridge, the Little Pedee, Long Island, Jersey City, Lower Canada, Green Bay, Gretna Green, Land's End, the Gold Coast.

6.It comports with the name and design of this work, which is a broad synopsis of grammatical criticism, to notice here one other absurdity; namely, the doctrine of "sentential nouns."

A much more judicious author treats this point of grammar as follows: "When the possessive noun is singular, and terminates with an s, another s is requisite after it, and the apostrophe must be placed between the two; as, 'Dickens's works,''Harris's wit.'"Day's Punctuation, Third London Edition, p. 136.

The rule supposes the first word to be the principal term, with which the other word, or subsequent noun or pronoun, is in apposition; and it generally is so: but the explanatory word is sometimes placed first, especially among the poets; as, "From bright'ning fields of ether fair disclos'd, Child of the sun, refulgent Summer comes.

But composing and reading, if they are mere nouns, cannot properly be qualified by any adverb; and, if they are called participles, the question recurs respecting the possessives.

Dr. Mant has observed another mistake in his use of the word "Tempe" as a feminine noun, in the lines translated from Akenside.

2. Contrary to the preceding rule, the preterits, participles, and derivative nouns, of the few verbs ending in al, il, or ol, unaccented,namely, equal, rival, vial, marshal, victual, cavil, pencil, carol, gambol, and pistol,are usually allowed to double the l, though some dissent from the practice: as, equalled, equalling; rivalled, rivalling; cavilled, cavilling, caviller; carolled, carolling, caroller.

"A word in the possessive case is not an independent noun, and cannot stand by its self.

Here the examples, if rightly pointed, would all be right; but the ellipsis supposed, not only destroys the apposition, but converts the explanatory noun into a nominative.

39.Of foreign nouns, many retain their original plural; a few are defective; and some are redundant, because the English form is also in use.

SEE Nordhoff, Charles. Skip; a strong Icelandic noun.

When we say, the English, the French, the Dutch, the Scotch, the Welsh, the Irish,meaning, the English people, the French people, &c., many grammarians conceive that English, French, &c., are indeclinable nouns.

Two words, each having the possessive sign, can never be in apposition one with the other; because that sign has immediate reference to the governing noun expressed or understood after it; and if it be repeated, separate governing nouns will be implied, and the apposition will be destroyed.

In all such phraseology, there is, in regard to the form of the latter word, an evident disagreement of the adjective with its immediate noun; but sometimes, (where the preposition of does not occur,) expressions that seem somewhat like these, may be elliptical: as when historians tell of many thousand foot (soldiers), or many hundred horse (troops).

Misused nouns, 22-42; verbs, 92-108; adjectives and adverbs, 119-129; prepositions, 134-139; conjunctions, 143-146.

2. "To prevent its being connected with the nearest noun.