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Bubu
Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 47
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:34 am Post subject: faculties or faculties? |
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Hallo,
When faculty refers to Teacher what does it exactly mean?
Does it mean a group of teachers or a single teacher?
Can I say
'he is a great faculty in ecience'?
Or
' we have great faculties in our school'?
Thanks
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RebeccaGMW
Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 51 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:18 am Post subject: |
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It refers to the group of teachers.
You can say:
He is a great faculty member in the discipline of Science.
We have a great faculty at our school.
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advoca
Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 422 Location: Beijing
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject: Faculty |
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In connection with schools, faculty can be used in two ways:
1 [countable noun] a department or group of departments in a university:
Example: The Faculty of Medicine
Example: The Law Faculty
2 [uncountable noun] (AMERICAN ONLY) all the teachers in a university, college, or school:
Example: There will be a meeting for students, faculty, and administrators
One teacher alone cannot be a faculty. |
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