My ten-year-old was working on a Language Arts writing assignment today. She was supposed to take two shorter sentences and, using a conjunction or omitting words, edit them down to one, more succinct sentence. Here are the two sentences:
Many men have learned to cope with handicaps. Many women have learned to cope with handicaps.
The correct answer is: Many men and women have learned to cope with handicaps.
My daughter (who evidently knows her parents all too well) wrote:
"Many men have learned to cope with handicaps, and women."
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