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Esldepp Posted 16 years ago
1. their teenager instead of their teanagers?
For instance, is it correct to say "We should be thankful for our father" when "we" refers to a group of individuals that are not related to each other?
2. why not their ways instead of her way? "her" refers to "our kids" not "our kid" here.
3. same thing here as 1, their 11-year-old instead of their 11-year-olds?
4. her eyes? why not their eyes? same question as 2.
Is this a specific grammar phenomena that plural forms ("our kids") can be used with single forms ("her way", "her eyes") if the later is meant to serve as an specific example ("to Dartmouth", "off the Food network") of the former?
Hope I have made my questions clear to you.
Thanks
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Grammar
Plural forms and pronouns in this sentence
Do we see our kids in their teenager on her way to Dartmouth, in their 11-year-old who couldn't take her eyes off the Food Network?
My questions:1. their teenager instead of their teanagers?
For instance, is it correct to say "We should be thankful for our father" when "we" refers to a group of individuals that are not related to each other?
2. why not their ways instead of her way? "her" refers to "our kids" not "our kid" here.
3. same thing here as 1, their 11-year-old instead of their 11-year-olds?
4. her eyes? why not their eyes? same question as 2.
Is this a specific grammar phenomena that plural forms ("our kids") can be used with single forms ("her way", "her eyes") if the later is meant to serve as an specific example ("to Dartmouth", "off the Food network") of the former?
Hope I have made my questions clear to you.
Thanks
D
Top answer
I am totally confused by your post. Do we see our kids in their teenage years on their ways to Dartmouth? - This makes sense but your sentence is completly muddled.
- I am totally confused by your post.
- Do we see our kids in their teenage years on their ways to Dartmouth?
- - This makes sense but your sentence is completly muddled.
- You can't be in a person or people.
- So in their teenager and in their 11 year old means nothing.
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I am totally confused by your post.
Do we see our kids in their teenage years on their ways to Dartmouth? - This makes sense but your sentence is completly muddled.
You can't be in a person or people. So in their teenager and in their 11 year old means nothing.
You can't mix the plural and singular the way you are trying to do. I don't know if there is one or more tee
Do we see our kids in their teenage years on their ways to Dartmouth? - This makes sense but your sentence is completly muddled.
You can't be in a person or people. So in their teenager and in their 11 year old means nothing.
You can't mix the plural and singular the way you are trying to do. I don't know if there is one or more tee
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Thanks for the reply. I misunderstood the sentence. "their" in the sentence means the parents of the two girls, one in her way to Dartmouth and the other is 11 years old. The questions I raised are totally bogus. Everything is fine with the sentence. Sorry the trouble.
Sincerely
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Sincerely
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