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a noun that names a particular group of people or things, e.g. a flock of birds, a herd of cattle; a committee of members, a team of players. Although collective nouns imply more than one thing, they take the singular verb, e.g. The committee is meeting today.
when it is possible to see everything that is in the frame. Everything is in focus.
the part of the sentence that receives the action of the verb directly, e.g. in I saw the car, I...
informal language, often used and understood by particular or exclusive groups of people, e.g....
a list of words with their meanings. The listed words appear, often highlighted in some way, in...
a fourteen line poem, with a set rhyme scheme. See Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet...