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.

Read the sentences below. (1) wordsworth believed that poetry should present the ordinary in unusual ways, and shelley's "ode to the west wind" does just that. (2) in the poem, the speaker calls the wind "thou breath of autumn's being." (3) later in the poem, the speaker refers to the wind as both "destroyer and preserver." which word or phrase would smooth the transition between sentence 1 and sentence 2? a "in addition" b "finally" c "for instance" d "moreover"