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A shocked murmur goes through the (crowd of) hostages.
1) Is the sentence good?
2) A lot of the examples I can find have "crowd of whatever" in them, but is it just as okay to just write "hostages"?
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Hi The sentence with 'crowd of' is good. The sentence without it is probably OK, but I don't think it works so well. If we think of the hostages as individuals who happen to be standing in roughly the same place, the idea of a murmur going through them is not that strong.
- Hi The sentence with 'crowd of' is good.
- The sentence without it is probably OK, but I don't think it works so well.
- If we think of the hostages as individuals who happen to be standing in roughly the same place, the idea of a murmur going through them is not that strong.
- On the other hand, the image of a murmur passing through a crowd is vivid.
- Dave
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Hi
The sentence with 'crowd of' is good.
The sentence without it is probably OK, but I don't think it works so well. If we think of the hostages as individuals who happen to be standing in roughly the same place, the idea of a murmur going through them is not that strong.
On the other hand, the image of a murmur passing through a crowd is vivid.
Dave
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