Help with this definition of $(G:_M I)$

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I didn't understand why in this definition $I$ has to be an ideal to make sense.

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This is from Steps in Commutative Algebra, page 107.

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The definition doesn't claim that $I$ has to be an ideal, and in fact it doesn't, but if $S$ is any subset of $R$ then $(G :_M S) = (G :_M I)$ where $I$ is the ideal generated by $S$, so $I$ might as well be an ideal.