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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

leave out pronoun, why?

in a sentence you can say: ' he took it and cleaned it'. yet, you can insert a 'he'-->he took it and he cleaned it.
what's the rule for that?
  

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The only "rule" in play here would be the need for a comma before 'and' because you are changing (repeating) the subject for the second verb.

— Philip

  • The only "rule" in play here would be the need for a comma before 'and' because you are changing (repeating) the subject for the second verb.
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The only "rule" in play here would be the need for a comma before 'and' because you are changing (repeating) the subject for the second verb.
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I would say that there is some difference in meaning in this case. That "took" is not literal. It is something like the "gone" in "Now you've gone and done it." "He took it and cleaned it" basically means nothing more than "He cleaned it." "He took it, and he cleaned it" means that he first took possession of it and then cleaned it.
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