Examining more than one duplicate object

Authoring Inform 7
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In the “Early Childhood” example, there are blocks of different colors:

[code]Colour is a kind of value. The colours are red, blue and green. A block is a kind of thing. A block has a colour. A block is usually blue. Before printing the name of a block: say "[colour] ". Before printing the plural name of a block: say "[colour] ". Understand the colour property as describing a block.

The Nursery is a room. In the Nursery are six red blocks, four blue blocks and a green block.[/code]

What would be a good way to give a custom response to something like “x blocks” (and maybe even “x red blocks”), instead of the default “You can’t use multiple objects with that verb.”?

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The example The Left Hand of Autumn explains how to address multiple objects as a group, which is probably what you’re looking for. If you just want to examine each block in succession, you can add one line:

Understand "examine [things]" as examining.

This will produce one line of output for each thing examined:

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Thank you!