The phrase "a primary group" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small social group whose members share close, personal, and enduring relationships, often used in sociology.
Example: "Family is often considered a primary group because of the strong emotional bonds and support among its members."
Alternatives: "a core group" or "a fundamental group".
Capsizing of ships constitutes a primary group of casualties that leads to loss of life and money.
A social movement lacks both the intimacy of a primary group and the formal boundaries of an association.
Although individuals within a primary group generally are aware of their cultural bonds, the various groups within an ethnographically determined culture area do not necessarily share any self-recognition of their affinities to one another.
Aim of this work is the investigation of the gold catalysed liquid-phase oxidation of polyalcohols with both, primary and secondary alcohol groups, in order to evaluate the potential of gold catalysts to oxidise a secondary alcohol group in presence of a primary group.
In 1914 and '15 British scholar Bernard Gilliat-Smith offered an alternative typology in which the dialects were divided into a primary group, Vlax (Vlach or Wallachian), and a secondary group, non-Vlax; the latter consisted of Northern, Central, Balkan, and Iberian subdivisions.
A first round of voting will reduce the candidates to a primary group of six candidates, all of whom have to choose a running mate outside of their own party; then, in April of next year, an online convention will determine which of those six will be Americans Elect's presidential candidate.
The worship of ancestors must be understood as a family institution in which intercourse between the living and the dead is the internal activity of a social primary group.
Compound 2 has a hydroxyl group at C-3 position in its structure which is a secondary hydroxyl group and a primary hydroxyl group at position C-28.
In addition, S1P has a primary amino group and a hydroxyl group bound to the aliphatic chain giving S1P zwitterionic properties.
As amino acids have both a primary amine group and a primary carboxyl group, these chemicals can undergo most of the reactions associated with these functional groups.
Interestingly, we found that only 7% of the test samples had a healthy tissue group, as opposed to a primary cancer group, as their best match.
