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HifaMo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

having the same problems as theirs

Hi,

Is it correct to say:

They met people having the same problems as theirs.

Thanks.
  

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I doubt it. That sentence looks odd to me. " This is correct.

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I doubt it. That sentence looks odd to me. I would write: "They met people who had the same problems as them." This is correct.
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Thanks, but could you please explain why?

"Them" is an object pronoun; it sounds odd to me.
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HifaMoIs it correct to say:They met people having the same problems as theirs.
Yes. It's grammatically correct. However, most people would not use the participle form 'having'. Most people would say something more like this:

They met people who had the same problems as [theirs / they did].

CJ
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"Them" is an object pronoun. I think it can be used in this sentence, just as I'd use it, for example, in "I'm going home now, just like him (=like he is)" or "You have the same model of car as me (=as I do)" or "You visited the same house as us (=as we did)". I just hope I'm right...
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