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Persona Grata Posted 19 years ago
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The soccer team.
This question is about "collective noun".
The soccer team felt unhappy because ___ had lost in the closing moments of the game.
I thought that "whether a team loses or not" was a matter of a team's own.
So if a team is lost, a team has collective meaning. It is not a collection of various individuals but one unit.
Therefore, my answer was "it"
But the answer was "they".
Could explain me why???:)
The soccer team felt unhappy because ___ had lost in the closing moments of the game.
I thought that "whether a team loses or not" was a matter of a team's own.
So if a team is lost, a team has collective meaning. It is not a collection of various individuals but one unit.
Therefore, my answer was "it"
But the answer was "they".
Could explain me why???:)
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Persona Grata This question is about "collective noun". The soccer team felt unhappy because ___ had lost in the closing moments of the game. But the answer was "they".
- Persona Grata This question is about "collective noun".
- The soccer team felt unhappy because ___ had lost in the closing moments of the game.
- But the answer was "they".
- The soccer team felt unhappy because they had lost in the closing moments of the game.
- )
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Persona GrataThis question is about "collective noun".The soccer team felt unhappy because they had lost in the closing moments of the game.
The soccer team felt unhappy because ___ had lost in the closing moments of the game.
But the answer was "they".
( The writer is treating the team as individual players.)
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