carry the piano together. Note that the last one (carry the piano together) can be made non-collective by removing the word together. Quantifiers differ with respect to whether or not they can be the subject of a collective predicate. For example, quantifiers formed with all the can, while ones formed with every or each cannot. All the students formed a line. — Collective predicate possible with all the. All the students gathered in the hallway. — Collective predicate possible with all the. All the students carried a piano together. — Collective predicate possible with all the. *Every student formed a line. — Collective predicate impossible with every. *Each student gathered in the hallway. — Collective predicate impossible with each. See also Clause Categorical proposition Dependency grammar Inflectional phrase Meaning-text theory Phrase Phrase structure grammar Predicative expression Secondary predicate Topic–comment Verb Notes References Literature Also distributed by Indiana University Linguistics Club and GLSA UMass/Amherst. External links Syntax Linguistics Grammar Philosophy of language Semantics