collective noun
n=3
a: Collective noun ~
b: a single package
What: "A collective noun is like a single package containing several items" For example: "The number is staggering."
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Date: Oct 11 2013 3:45 PM
# 3977 Critique Analogy
a: Collective noun ~
b: the word people
What: "Now we get into something a little tricky because the word seed is a collective noun. A collective noun is like people - it can refer to a small group or a large group, a crowd. It is a singular noun, but it has a collective meaning. Seed can be singular or plural. It is singular in the sense of apple seed or individual seed, or it can talk about all the descendants of somebody meaning the descendants of Abraham. Here Paul makes a point out of the fact that the word Seed is singular, and so the promise is to a Seed singular. "...He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to your Seed,' which is Christ." He applies the promise of blessing ultimately to the person of Jesus Christ."
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Date: Oct 11 2013 3:45 PM
# 3978 Critique Analogy
Examples Not Analogies
a: Collective noun ~
b: family, team, audience, crowd, and class
What: "A collective noun is like family, team, audience, crowd, and class. Treat compound antecedents connected by and as plural."
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Writer: Hailey
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Date: Oct 11 2013 3:48 PM
# 3979 Critique Analogy
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