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Im here to prove you all wrong. If you were to refer to a group of "ones" it is correct. If you were playing cards and the deck had a card with the value of one, and winning the game will get you three dollar bills. And your hand was all ones. You could say "I'm definitely gonna lose I have all these ones." Then your friend could reply "Those ones are gonna cost you these ones" Those would be in reference to the cards with a value of one. These would be in reference to the the dollar bills. I know you could say it better many different ways. Such as leaving out these and those but it proves it can work when a group of ones are the subject. You could even say "Your ones" tell me I'm wrong.
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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