Timeline for Repetition of "their"
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| Apr 1, 2018 at 10:03 | vote | accept | Sophie Rifaut | ||
| Mar 31, 2018 at 17:57 | answer | added | rhetorician | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 16:35 | comment | added | WS2 | @tchrist I agree. But in that passage almost all the "theirs" could be omitted and it would make little difference. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 15:38 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2018 at 15:24 | history | edited | Sophie Rifaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2018 at 13:51 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Why do you imagine that repeating their is less acceptable in English than repeating son/sa/ses in French? Purely grammatical function words like the or their or with have no synonyms the way lexical words do, so you have to use them when you have to use them, as you won't be able to find some other word that means the same thing. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 13:38 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 31, 2018 at 13:34 | history | asked | Sophie Rifaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |