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Taka Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Those

In our country, those words are taken in different ways from the ways they are taken in your country.

If the underline part was replaced with "those" as this below, would it still sound OK?

In our country, those words are taken in different ways from those they are taken in your country.
  

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Taka If the underline part was replaced with "those" as this below, would it still sound OK? No—it becomes a nightmare of pronoun reference. But you can do it a different way: In our country, those words are taken in different ways from how they are taken in your country.

— Mister Micawber

  • Taka If the underline part was replaced with "those" as this below, would it still sound OK?
  • No—it becomes a nightmare of pronoun reference.
  • But you can do it a different way: In our country, those words are taken in different ways from how they are taken in your country.
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TakaIf the underline part was replaced with "those" as this below, would it still sound OK?
No—it becomes a nightmare of pronoun reference. But you can do it a different way:

In our country, those words are taken in different ways from how they are taken in your country.
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Good. I thought not.

Thanks, MM!
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