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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject: result in |
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1.The Ministry hopes that the ads will create more couples in Japan and that will result in them having more children.
2.The Ministry hopes that the ads will create more couples in Japan and that will result in their having more children. |
Which one is the better expression among native speakers?
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CP
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Number 2 is correct and number 1 is wrong. However, you will hear native speakers use the number 1 construction.
It should be "their having more children" because "having more children" is a noun phrase, commencing with a gerund (a noun made out of a verb), so treated the same as any noun. What if you changed "having more children" to "prosperity"? You would never say "and that will result in them prosperity."
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