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Yesterday, we played football, hockey and cricket on the ground. Besides these games, we also cooked food.
Yesterday, we played football, hockey and cricket on the ground. Besides them, we also cooked food.
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"them" does not work properly. "these games" is better, but the parallelism of the second sentence is not quite correct. This is better: Besides playing these games, we also cooked food.
- "them" does not work properly.
- "these games" is better, but the parallelism of the second sentence is not quite correct.
- This is better: Besides playing these games, we also cooked food.
- Your use of "on the ground" is in theory OK, but the common idiomatic meaning of "on the floor / surface of the Earth" intrudes too much for me.
- To avoid this, you can say "on the sports ground".
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"them" does not work properly. "these games" is better, but the parallelism of the second sentence is not quite correct. This is better:
Besides playing these games, we also cooked food.
Your use of "on the ground" is in theory OK, but the common idiomatic meaning of "on the floor / surface of the Earth" intrudes too much for me. To avoid this, you can say "on the spo
0You can also say:
Besides this, we also cooked food.
Besides playing games, we also cooked food.
"cooked food" sounds very slightly vague or incomplete.
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