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HSS Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Mother-Daughter Trip

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00Could someone please help me with the phrase mother-daughter trip I saw in the following paragraph? Does mother refer to Roseann or Roseann's mother? Is this a common phrase? How otherwise can you use the phrase --- perhaps, Jane and her Mom made a mother-daughter trip to Hawaii, and Mother spent a lot of time tell her daughter about her teens and twenties, for example? (Roseann is going to have triplets)01blockquote
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10Roseann and Joe both come from big Italian families, and everyone wanted to pitch in to prepare for the babies. Roseann recalls many mother-daughter trips to Babies"R"us. She was having the kind of glowing pregnancy most women dream about. But that was about to change.12br
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10Thanks ahead of time.02br
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0In this passage, it refers to Roseann and her mother going shopping together in preparation for Roseann's babies arriving. You can tell this because the previous sentence refers to her family (and Joe's) being involved in the preparations. 02br 02br 00Mother-daughter can be used to describe other activites than a trip.

— Lil' Ruby Rose

  • 0In this passage, it refers to Roseann and her mother going shopping together in preparation for Roseann's babies arriving.
  • You can tell this because the previous sentence refers to her family (and Joe's) being involved in the preparations.
  • 02br 02br 00Mother-daughter can be used to describe other activites than a trip.
  • It is not an everyday expression, but it's fairly common.
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0In this passage, it refers to Roseann and her mother going shopping together in preparation for Roseann's babies arriving. You can tell this because the previous sentence refers to her family (and Joe's) being involved in the preparations. If it meant Roseann and 01i00her02i00 daughter (an older sister to the babies), the daughter would need to be mentioned somewhere in
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0Thanks, Lil' Ruby Rose. A lucid explanation; so much so that I think I can use the phrase in my own essay.02br
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00By the way, you said "other activities than a trip" instead of "from a trip." I thought "than" was very American.02br
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0 Hmm. No, I'm fairly comfortable with "other things than a trip" in BrE in this context. If I were going to say it another way, I might say "other things as well as a trip" or "in addition to a trip", but I don't think I'd say "other things from a trip". 0-
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0Just found a typo in my first.05002br
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00--- perhaps, Jane and her Mom made a mother-daughter trip to Hawaii, and Mother spent a lot of time tell01b01font00ing02font02b00 her daughter about 01font01b00days in02b00 02font00her teens and twenties,
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0Oooops, my bad. 05000 I was somehow thinking of "different than" and "different from." Yup, you are quite along with what I feel about "other than." My brain has not been provided with enough oxygen yet today.05102br
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