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grammatical? a sentence: His reign was much shorter than the reigns of both his father and his son. to rewrite it: His reign was much shorter than the reign of his father. so, usually I write it : His reign was much shorter than that of his father. the following sentence is also acceptable: Their reigns were much shorter than those of their ancestors. in these cases, THAT agrees with REIGN, and THOSE with REIGNS. a question comes: can the first sentence be written as His reign was much shorter than those of both his father and his son. ? it is of course understandable, but the original form seems to be [than those reign of ], without an s, which is absolutely ungrammatical. what do yo think? |
Re: grammatical? It's fine. The full version would be "than the reigns". Those here is a demonstrative pronoun and would stand for the plural construction definite article + plural noun. |
Re: grammatical? thanks~~ |
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