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Healer Posted 7 years ago
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His murder

Everyone is talking about his murder.

Is he the victim or the murderer?

  

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healer Everyone is talking about his murder. Is he the victim or the murderer? I don't know.

  • healer Everyone is talking about his murder.
  • Is he the victim or the murderer?
  • I don't know.
  • The sentence doesn't say.
  • It's your sentence, so you'll have to tell us.
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healer

Everyone is talking about his murder.

Is he the victim or the murderer?

I don't know. The sentence doesn't say.

It's your sentence, so you'll have to tell us.

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It defaults readily to the victim. Your reader will have to make an effort to construe it the other way if you write that meaning the murderer, and that is probably not good.

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