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I believe audience is a collective noun too and in American English it will be used as audience is instead of audience are unless it is in a plural form such as three audiences...
papgust wrote:"Collective Nouns" such as a group (of things), a crowd (of people), a herd (of cattle), a flock (of sheep), a regiment (of soldiers) etc. are usually SINGULAR and they take a SINGULAR VERB.
Examples:
A crowd of people has gathered.
A flock of sheep was grazing.
EXCEPTIONS:
If the members of the group are taken individually, then a PLURAL VERB may be used.
Example:
The audience are requested to leave by the nearest exit -- Groups of people take the nearest exit. They are not considered as a single group. So, we use a plural verb.
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@papgust, can you give egs of possessive pronouns. Possessive nouns are the nouns with "'s" in the end right?papgust wrote:Possessive Pronouns:
Possessive Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Possessive nouns.
Subject and Object Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Subject and Objects nouns respectively. (NOT Possessive Nouns)
Example:
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls him a pig -- WRONG! "Him" (Object Pronoun) refers to Jose's (Possessive Noun).
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls Jose a pig -- RIGHT!
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Examples of possessive pronoun are: HIS and HER.confusedSoul730 wrote:@papgust, can you give egs of possessive pronouns. Possessive nouns are the nouns with "'s" in the end right?papgust wrote:Possessive Pronouns:
Possessive Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Possessive nouns.
Subject and Object Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Subject and Objects nouns respectively. (NOT Possessive Nouns)
Example:
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls him a pig -- WRONG! "Him" (Object Pronoun) refers to Jose's (Possessive Noun).
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls Jose a pig -- RIGHT!
and thanks for these amazing notes
These are used to refer possessive nouns('s).
A possessive noun(Jose's) has to be referred using possessive pronoun HIS. If we wish to refer JOSE(not JOSE's) in the same sentence, we cannot use HIM. Since HIM cannot refer to JOSE's. Therefor we use the noun Jose.
Eg
1) Ram's book was so inspirational that publishers approached him/Ram.
2) Ram's book was so successful that his/him/Ram mother called his/him/Ram to congratulate .
Answer
1) Ram
2) his , Ram
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papgust wrote:Possessive Pronouns:
Possessive Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Possessive nouns.
Subject and Object Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Subject and Objects nouns respectively. (NOT Possessive Nouns)
Example:
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls him a pig -- WRONG! "Him" (Object Pronoun) refers to Jose's (Possessive Noun).
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls Jose a pig -- RIGHT!
My room is so messy that my mother calls me a pig.
Is this a correct construction. Here ME being object pronoun refers back to MY. Please enlighten me.
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papgust wrote:Possessive Pronouns:
Possessive Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Possessive nouns.
Subject and Object Pronouns can refer back to ONLY Subject and Objects nouns respectively. (NOT Possessive Nouns)
Example:
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls him a pig -- WRONG! "Him" (Object Pronoun) refers to Jose's (Possessive Noun).
Jose's room is so messy that his mother calls Jose a pig -- RIGHT!
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i have small doubt ...
1) recent unexpected failure
2) recently unexpected failure
which one is correct
1) recent unexpected failure
2) recently unexpected failure
which one is correct
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