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* Read the sentences and answer the questions. My family lives in Cardiff. Our soccer team is fantastic. The whole class is here. What have the words family, team, and class got in common? (a) They are all singular nouns. (b) They are followed by a singular verb. (c) They refer to only one person. (d) They refer to a number of people. (b) (d) The keys: I. 对于这些集体名词：family, class, team, committee, audience, public, government 等, 如果强调这个集体是一个整体就被看作单数, 如果强调组成这个整体的每个成员就当作复数用。 如: ① The class is a good one. ② The class are all there. ③ My family is in Beijing. ④ My family are all soccer fans. ⑤ The team is loved by all the people  in the city. ⑥ The team has now known the whole story. ⑦ The audience was large. ⑧ The audience are now enjoying the play so much. Complete each sentence using a verb. 1. The Valencia soccer team _____ in a large stadium. 2. Carlos’s class ____ a meeting. 3. Amy ____ in London but her family ________ in Cardiff. plays has lives live/lives live play have Finish the following sentences. 1) The class __ (be) big. 2) The class ___ (be) taking notes at the moment. 3) His family ____ (be) small in the past, but now it __ (be) big. is are was is 4) His family ____ (be) all soccer fans. 5) The team ___ (have) made progress. 6) The team ____ (have) all forgot the  meeting. are has have Read the examples and answer the questions. Neither Amy nor Helen is English. Neither of them is English. None of them has arrived yet. Each country in the United Kingdom has a capital city. Each of them has a capital city. Do the first and second sentences mean the same thing? Do we know how many people the third sentence refers to? Yes, they do. Only that it is more than two (which would be “he / she” for one person and “neither” for two people.) 3. The fourth and fifth sentences refer to countries. Do we know how many countries they refer to? No we don’t, except that there must be t