Question

Which one of the following sentences contains a collective noun?

A. Listen, my children, and you shall hear.
B. The legislature met in secret session.
C. Who among you is a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker?
D. The quality of mercy is not strained.

Answer 1

The sentence that contains a collective noun is option C - 'Who among you is a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker?'

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence that contains a collective noun is option C - 'Who among you is a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker?'

A collective noun is a word that refers to a group or collection of people or things. In this sentence, 'you' refers to a group of people, and 'butcher, baker, or candlestick maker' refers to different occupations. So, the sentence contains a collective noun.

Answer 2

The answer would be A. Listen, my children, and you shall hear. This is because the word children means more than one child, in other words more than one noun. B. is not the answer because a legislature is only one. C. is also wrong because it is describing each type of noun. There is one butcher, one baker, one candlestick maker. D. has no nouns except mercy which is not a collective noun. The answer is A. Listen, my children, and you shall hear.