One's social status depends on wealth, education and connections.
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Is the sentence below grammatically correct and does it sound natural?
1) One's social status depends on wealth, education and connections.
To me, it looks kind of inconsistent because before "social status" we explicitly say "one's", but before "wealth", "education" and "connections" we use zero article.
What do you think about the modified versions below? Are they better or worse?
2) Social status depends on wealth, education and connections. (only zero articles)
3) One's social status depends on his/her/their wealth, education and connections. (pronouns added)
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I find (1) acceptable, but by preference I would write One's social status depends on one's wealth, education and connections. "One's ... his" is an older style which I don't personally advocate in modern writing.
- I find (1) acceptable, but by preference I would write One's social status depends on one's wealth, education and connections.
- "One's ...
- his" is an older style which I don't personally advocate in modern writing.
- (2) is also possible.
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I find (1) acceptable, but by preference I would write One's social status depends on one's wealth, education and connections. "One's ... his" is an older style which I don't personally advocate in modern writing. (2) is also possible.
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