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lusaziel
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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Location: Italy - Rimini
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 Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:56 am Post subject: Collective nouns |
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I am Italian and after "collective nouns" in my language we use a singular verb, what should I do with English?
For example: my family is or my family are? My band is or my bad are?
Thanks Ilaria  |
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JuanValdez
Joined: 12 Nov 2005
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Location: Somewhere in Middle America
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:52 am Post subject: Re: Collective nouns |
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| lusaziel wrote: |
I am Italian and after "collective nouns" in my language we use a singular verb, what should I do with English?
For example: my family is or my family are? My band is or my bad are?
Thanks Ilaria |
My family IS.
My band IS.
But... in Italian "la gente" is followed by a singular verb.
in English "people" is followed by a plural verb.
Hmmm... I hope that helps a little, atleast.
P.S. Italy is a beautiful country. |
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lusaziel
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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Location: Italy - Rimini
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject: it's confusing |
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Yes, but I have a friend in Australia who used "my family are"... that was confusing, also my teacher said both are right...
Thanks, yes, Italy is beautiful
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Lorikeet
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| JuanValdez gave you the American English answer. I never knew it was done differently in other English-speaking places until I started visiting forums like this. |
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haitm
Joined: 23 Nov 2005
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Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject: Italian question |
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| In my opinion, "My family IS ..." is correct. .Especially in TOEFL preparing course, they indicated that family is count noun means one family, two families, etc. |
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