"Reading can enrich our mind." or "Reading can enrich our minds."?

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Prajwalkr · Accepted Answer

Hi
The second one.
Better:
Reading enriches our minds.

Prajwal

Dimsumexpress · Answer

wangqh2696122"Reading can enrich our minds."

Scientific studies show...."reading can enrich our minds." - This is correct. Our - is a plural possessive pronoun and each one of us has our own mind, not sharing one. So "minds" is the only logical choice. But we certainly can say: This is our house.
Learners often post single sentences and want to know if they are correct. We should understand, words build sentences and paragraphs are made up of sentences. This can be compared to building a brick house; water, lime- cement and sand make the mortar which we need to set the bricks to build the walls. Each material has to be correctly proportioned and mixed with others to produce the strongest mortar. In learning to tell a convincing story, subject, verb, noun, phrase and adverbial are the building materials in each sentence which has to be constructed correctly and connected to the next cohesively to form a semantically sensible context. That's the reason why we always emphasize on contexts.

Wangqh2696122 · Answer

Why do we use "mind"  in  the sentence "By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it."?

Dimsumexpress · Answer

wangqh2696122Why do we use "mind" in the sentence "By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it."?

You didn't understand what I just said in the last post. You popped a sentence out of nowhere without any context, sometimes it is difficult to determine if a sentence is correct or otherwise.

If I interpret it correctly, "mind" is used in a general sense, as in. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".

CalifJim · Answer

wangqh2696122Why do we use "mind" in the sentence "By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it."?

It's hard to answer this question. We use the word "mind", or any other word, because we mean that word. That is, we intend to communicate the concept that that word means for those we are communicating with.

Maybe you're asking for the meaning of "mind" in that sentence? In that sentence 'mind' is a reference to the total amount of knowledge we have. In other words we increase our knowledge by reading, and we refine that knowledge when we discuss what we have read with others.

CJ

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