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Vsuresh Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

itself

Hi
Please tell me if this sentence is OK.

The poet' s education told him that golden yellow snakes like itself( the one he saw then) should be killed.
  

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No. You can probably say "like this one".

  • No.
  • You can probably say "like this one".
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No.

You can probably say "like this one".
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No, that doesn't work grammatically, and it's advocating animal cruelty!

Try,
"... golden-yellow snakes, like the one he saw, are not poisonous."

[cross-posted with GPY]

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