1 the tree is not the gift but the location of the gift
364Actually, you would get 376 gifts. On each of the twelve days, you would receive 1 partridge AND 1 pear tree, therefore making it necessary to add the 12 pear trees to the 364 other gifts. Unless, of course, your true love gives you only 1 pear tree and simply adds birds to it everyday, in which case you would receive 365 gifts -- or, one gift for each day of the year, which is sorta romantic when you think about it, but on the other hand, a partridge sitting in a pear tree most likely means the pear tree is infested with insects that the bird is eating and that's not really romantic at all.
Buying each item in the song just once - from a partridge in a pear tree to a dozen drummers drumming - will cost you $18,920
The gifts are 12 lords a-leaping 11 ladies dancing 10 pipers piping 9 drummers drumming 8 maids a-milking 7 swans a-swimming 6 geese a-laying 5 gold rings 4 colly birds 3 French hens 2 turtle doves 1 partridge in a pear tree which totals 78 gifts, assuming that the partidge in the pear tree is counted as one single gift.
A tree diagram is the way to identify and count all possible outcomes.
The word 'branch' is a count noun; one tree branch, two tree branches; one bank branch, four bank branches; a river branch, several river branches.
First GiftThe first gift in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' is a partridge in a pear tree.A partridge in a pear tree.
The partridge in the Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is perched in a pear tree.
a pear tree
Partridge in a pear tree.
Partridge.
A partridge costs $15
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A partridge in a pear tree
Well, honey, the only thing that rhymes with "partridge in a pear tree" is "partridge in a pear tree." It's a pretty unique phrase, so you won't find a perfect rhyme for it. But hey, at least it's catchy and festive, right?
Up in the pear tree.
A partridge in a pear tree