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Outsider
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 Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: congregate |
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Can I say �Many fabric stores congregated at Hancock Street �? when I mean quite a few fabric stores are located at Hancock Street.
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cgage2
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:24 am Post subject: |
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pugachevV
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: |
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Well, I think you can.
Congregate means, to gather in a crowd, or mass.
You can use the word in a broad sense to apply to stores, rather than people, or other animate objects. |
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Lorikeet
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I agree that "congregate" sounds funny with inanimate things, unless it's in a poem or something like that.
"The grapes congregated in the bowl......nah."  |
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wintersweet
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You could use it to be poetic or colorful, but usually another word would be used. For example...
- Many fabric stores are clustered around Hancock Street
- Many fabric stores line Hancock Street
- Hancock Street has quite a collection of fabric stores
etc.
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