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Is it correct to say "If you touch some of them, you will realize that they all have a soft part because of the wool that they are made with"?

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Yes.

CalifJim · Answer

mathias25If you touch some of them, you will realize that they all have a soft part because of the wool that they are made with.

Your sentence is grammatically correct; however, it's not quite idiomatic.

If you touch some of them, how do know anything about all of them? I think it's better to omit "some of".

If you touch them, you will realize that ...

"a soft part" is a little too vague for a description of a part. We don't even know what these things are to begin with, let alone what the part could be. Is it really a part that's soft? Or is the whole thing soft?

What we expect is more like this:

If you touch them, you will realize that they are soft because of the wool that they are made with.

If only a part is soft, you need to be more specific. Instead of saying "a part", name the part.

If you touch these toy dogs, you will realize that their tails are soft because of the wool that they are made with.

CJ

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