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New Hope Posted 12 years ago
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Which one of the two is correct and sounds better?
His teeth were gleaming white and shoes polished and shining.
His teeth were gleaming white and shoes were polished and shining.
  

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His teeth were gleaming white and shoes polished and shining. His teeth were gleaming white and shoes were polished and shining. The first sentence.

  • His teeth were gleaming white and shoes polished and shining.
  • His teeth were gleaming white and shoes were polished and shining.
  • The first sentence.
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haroon rashid Which one of the two is correct and sounds better?His teeth were gleaming white and shoes polished and shining. His teeth were gleaming white and shoes were polished and shining.
The first sentence.
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haroon rashidWhich one of the two is correct and sounds better?
I would add "his" in both cases, thus:

1 His teeth were gleaming white and his shoes polished and shining.
2 His teeth were gleaming white, and his shoes were polished and shining.

Both are correct. I prefer the second one.

CJ

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