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Grammar

Dostoevsky · 2013-07-04 18:56:39

I just wrote the following: 'I have rented for years, and have no problem with it." I always get the impression that gramatically it's incorrect not to put the personal pronoun back in the second clause of a sentence: 'I have rented for years, and I have no problem with it.' Technically, should the pronoun be put in there?…

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04-07-2013 7:56pm

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Dostoevsky

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I just wrote the following: 'I have rented for years, and have no problem with it."

I always get the impression that gramatically it's incorrect not to put the personal pronoun back in the second clause of a sentence: 'I have rented for years, and I have no problem with it.'

Technically, should the pronoun be put in there? Thanks.

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#2 05-07-2013 12:17am
Yakuza

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To me, the second pronoun is a tautology. It is implied that the pronoun of the second verb is the same as that of the first clause.

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