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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Can you recognise at once that "the family" refers to "Rodger's family"?
I failed to get it at the first sight (but reading on reveals anything). How about you?
Context:
Alan Shifman, an attorney for a Hollywood director, Peter Rodger, said on Saturday the family believed his son, Elliot, was responsible for the shooting. Shifman told the Associated Press the family had not yet seen his body, but they had been told he was killed and believed he killed six people.
Shifman said: "The Rodger family offers their deepest compassion and sympathy to the families involved in this terrible tragedy. We are experiencing the most inconceivable pain, and our hearts go out to everybody involved.”
Context:
Alan Shifman, an attorney for a Hollywood director, Peter Rodger, said on Saturday the family believed his son, Elliot, was responsible for the shooting. Shifman told the Associated Press the family had not yet seen his body, but they had been told he was killed and believed he killed six people.
Shifman said: "The Rodger family offers their deepest compassion and sympathy to the families involved in this terrible tragedy. We are experiencing the most inconceivable pain, and our hearts go out to everybody involved.”
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Is it better/clearer that if the writer used "his family" rather than "the family"?
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I would say this.
lan Shifman, an attorney for a Hollywood director, Peter Rodger, said on Saturday that Rodger and his family believed their son, Elliot, was responsible for the shooting.
lan Shifman, an attorney for a Hollywood director, Peter Rodger, said on Saturday that Rodger and his family believed their son, Elliot, was responsible for the shooting.
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