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  • Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English

    嗨,我是 BBC 英語的丹

  • and today I'm going to tell you something about collective nouns.

    今天我要來告訴大家一些關於集合名詞的小奧秘

  • Collective nouns are often called group nouns.

    集合名詞常被稱作團體名詞

  • That is because they represent a number of things together.

    這是因為它們代表一群事物的集合體

  • Examples are:

    例如:

  • government, family and team.

    政府、家庭、團隊

  • So, what's the big deal?

    重點來了

  • The special thing about these collective nouns

    這些集合名詞的特別之處在於

  • is that they can be singular or plural.

    它們能夠是單數也可以是複數型態

  • If you consider your family to be a group of individuals,

    如果你認為你的家庭是由一群單獨的個體組成

  • then the pronoun is they and the verb is plural.

    那麼代名詞就是 they,搭配複數型動詞

  • My family are happy.

    我的家庭很快樂

  • But your family can also be considered as a single unit,

    另一方面,你的家庭也能夠被視為一個單位

  • a machine that all works together.

    就像一台機器,裡面的成員各司其職

  • In this case, the pronoun is it and the verb is singular.

    這時候代名詞就是 it,搭配單數型動詞

  • My family is happy.

    我的家庭很快樂

  • This does not apply to all collective nouns,

    但這種情況不適用於全部的集合名詞

  • so be careful.

    小心了

  • Police and staff are always plural.

    警察與員工都是複數型態

Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English

嗨,我是 BBC 英語的丹

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