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A: My father told me that any parent who expected anything from his child was bound to be disappointed.
B: My father told me that any parents who expected anything from his child was bound to be disappointed.
Do A and B convey different meanings?
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B. is not grammatical. " With this correction, the meaning of A is: Any one parent of a child (either the father or the mother), who expected anything from that child, was bound to be disappointed.
- B.
- is not grammatical.
- " With this correction, the meaning of A is: Any one parent of a child (either the father or the mother), who expected anything from that child, was bound to be disappointed.
- And the meaning of B is: Both parents of a child (the father and the mother), if they (acting as a team) expected anything from that child, were bound to be disappointed.
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B. is not grammatical. It should be: "My father told me that any parents who expected anything from their child were bound to be disappointed." With this correction, the meaning of A is: Any one parent of a child (either the father or the mother), who expected anything from that child, was bound to be disappointed. And the meaning of B is: Both parents of a child (the father and the moth
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