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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: re pronoun references
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 15:21:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 15:21:56 1984
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bunker!gmm asks:

>	Are the following pronoun references correct?
>
>	"The team won its first game tonight. Afterwards, they
>	went out to cellebrate."

Wellll, sure: they <-> the team & the game, which makes the following sense(?):

	"The team won its first game tonight.  Afterwards, the team and the
	game went out to cerebrate."


	Never try to teach your grammer to suck eggs,
	Lisa S. Chabot

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