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Neither of those sentences is clear
by hammock 3y ago
Neither of those sentences is clear
- nomel 3y agoAgreed. Ditch the ambiguous “her”. “My mom, grandma, and I went to my grandma’s favorite store.”
- mrtranscendence 3y agoHow about this: “It was my grandma’s birthday and we wanted to make it special! My mom, my grandma, and I all went to her favorite store.” I’d argue that using “my grandma” instead of “her” would be unpleasantly repetitive there.
- hammock 3y agoThat approach is marginally better. It’s still arguably unclear. The store could be your mom’s favorite store to get special gifts from If you think using Grandma three times is too much, you could replace the first Grandma in the second sentence with “she.” For instance, “she, my mom, and I went…”