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Reply Tue 5 Mar, 2013 07:46 am
Hi English Teacher,
is the below sentence acceptable? Thanks a lot in advance.
Jack is a boy who sells a cow for three magic beans whose mother think they are worthless.
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Tue 5 Mar, 2013 01:19 pm
@Loh Jane,
Quote:
acceptable?
No Jane, it sounds like she's the mother of the beans. S/b …beans and whose mother thinks…"

Beyond this Jane it gets very, very complicated and I'll bet that sometimes you feel like giving up. For instance, technically, we could still be talking about the cow's mother

roger
 
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Reply Tue 5 Mar, 2013 01:49 pm
@dalehileman,
Agree, and beans don't have mothers in the normal sense of the word.
Loh Jane
 
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Reply Wed 6 Mar, 2013 06:40 am
@roger,
Thank you all.
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