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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Hi. Here's a sentence.
Hi. Here's a sentence.
Me and my two sisters were standing at/by the snack table, grabbing ourselves refreshments.
- What can I say that might be better than the underlined?
- Is 'at' or 'by' better?
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anonymous Me and my two sisters were standing at/by the snack table, grabbing ourselves refreshments . As a casual conversational sentence, this is OK as it is, and I don't see any particular reason to change the underlined part. g.
- anonymous Me and my two sisters were standing at/by the snack table, grabbing ourselves refreshments .
- As a casual conversational sentence, this is OK as it is, and I don't see any particular reason to change the underlined part.
- g.
- "helping ourselves to refreshments".
- In "proper" English, "Me and my two sisters" should be "My two sisters and I".
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anonymousMe and my two sisters were standing at/by the snack table, grabbing ourselves refreshments.
As a casual conversational sentence, this is OK as it is, and I don't see any particular reason to change the underlined part. If you did want to reword it, you could say e.g. "helping ourselves to refreshments". In "proper" English, "Me and my two si
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