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Essay on The Collective Noun by Sophie Johnson Traditionally, the noun that names a collective is considered to be singular. Being singular, the verbial that denotes its act is also singular: (1) The family prays every evening. (2) Australia is playing against Portugal in the final...

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Are both these sentences correct: "It's a quarter to five" (or "past five", or "six", etc.) and "It's quarter to five" ("past 5", etc.), with no definite article before "quarter"? The first sentence sounds more regular, and logical, to me. As for the second, I suppose it was derived from the...

Villa rivers Researchers have estimated a progression rate was 0 5 kilometres per 1000 years Clary 1984