Thread: Words associated with Nouns... Collective Nouns?
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Old 14-Jan-2007, 18:34
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Default Words associated with Nouns... Collective Nouns?
Hi, i was wondering, in language, if there is a word for a word assiociated to a noun in the following way:

a bolt of cloth
a pane of glass
a sheet of paper

I would be tempted to call this the collective noun.
But seeing as in essence, I am not describing a group or collection of things, I don't believe that calling this the collective noun would be entirely correct.

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Niall
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