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Parsing Pronouns, or, “What Do You Mean, ‘You Got Their Fine?!?'”

Question #2:  And Exactly How Much Was That?? It turns out son #2 doesn’t owe anyone anything. What he meant to say was, “I got there fine” (as in, “I arrived safely”). The back story:  he and a friend biked to school for the first time the other morning, and was under strict instructions to...
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