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Now, I've got a problem with this. In my line of work we handle innumerable doors, drawers and drawer faces. So when a fellow employee asks me, "Which ones should I bring over?" I don't want to tell him, "those forty" or "those fifty" because that's just plain silly. I'm going to reply to his pronoun 'ones' with my own pronoun in the sentence, "Those ones."
These ones? Those ones?
Eric writes: I was wondering if it is grammatically incorrect to use "these ones" or "those ones" when answering someone who just asked me a question like.. "which ones are done?" or "which of those still need to be wrapped?" It seems to me that if it's ok to say "this one" or "that one" that "th...
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