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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Is this sentence right?
Both of them had a knife in their hands.
I want to mean that each of them have a knife in one hand, so should hand be plural in the sentence?
Thanks
I want to mean that each of them have a knife in one hand, so should hand be plural in the sentence?
Thanks
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Each of them had a knife in his hand. (1 knife + 1 knife) Both of them had knives in their hands. )
- Each of them had a knife in his hand.
- (1 knife + 1 knife) Both of them had knives in their hands.
- )
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Each of them had a knife in his hand. (1 knife + 1 knife)
Both of them had knives in their hands. (each had one or more knives)
(Your version is ungrammatical.)
Both of them had knives in their hands. (each had one or more knives)
(Your version is ungrammatical.)
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