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A mother does not need to be drunk to beat her daughter. The odd thing in the write up is the reason for the beating "because she was drunk" this can possibly be that the mother got mad and beat up her daughter for being drunk. Therefore, it was the daughter that was drunk.

ezelous:
F9

ITI.
Olodo lecturer

BMCSlayer:
The mother.
Its like my dad slapped me because he was angry.

"My dad slapped me because...." is different from "A dad slapped his son because..."
Check the question again.

Adanne9110:
sorry dear not the same,,,,it's quite different,,,except u would say ' my dad slapped him because he was angry' "me" makes your example ist person while "he" makes it third person

its really not? I brought up this question yesterday night and my house has been arguing it since.

Lol......Olodo somebody

veekid:
Mtchew! Very simple thing!!!

placeofallure:



I pity y'all clicking like to support this post. Somebody just told you that the word 'she' is an adverb and you never thought to re-examine it in your heads. Of course 'she' is a pronoun just like He, Her, Him, I, We, Us, It, They, Them etc.


As regards the post: 'The mother beat her daughter because she was drunk '
Like BigBelleControl said earlier, 'because she was drunk' is an adverbial clause of reason showing why the daughter was beaten. But what the subordinate clause, which is an adverbial clause of reason didn't tell us is this:
Whether the woman beat the daughter out of her
own drunkenness. OR
Whether the daughter got beaten because she
was drunk.

Therefore, I rule that the sentence is ambiguous. That's why aspiring writers are advised against vague use of pronouns or any word for that matter for clarity purposes. Thanks.

You are correct dear. Pronoun not adverb.
I was drunk myself when i made the post. I just wake up the see mentionsss..

femeritus:

"she" is not an adverb please. It's a pronoun.

Modified: na higness cause am.. Guess its me the mother will beat now!

Whether the mother or the daughter. All I know is that there were a drunk.

Babes no dey comment for dis type.... if na Fvck and money matter... you for their rat mouth dey sharp.... dull Naija babes

richG:
Hmmm it's ambiguous

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The daughter

BigBelleControl:
This is an adverbial clause of reason which modifies the verb drunk which is the reason for the action.

Therefore the daughter is the drunk one.

Bruv in this case...Drunk isn't a verb

the mother eg the mother beat her daughter because she was angry .so who was angry?

BigBelleControl:
This is an adverbial clause of reason which modifies the verb drunk which is the reason for the action.

Therefore the daughter is the drunk one.

U are partly right by correctly spotting and naming the clause. However, your conclusion was wrong.
''because she was drunk' is the clause trying to throw more light on the finite verb ''beat''

So jumping into the conclusion that it was the daughter was rather hasty.

It could also be that neighbours who knew the mother as caring and over protective were wondering why she beat her daughter on that fateful Day and the answer to their questions prompted this sentence.

So, I will say it's a 2way statement! There are lots Of them in English

Their Uncle

daylife7:
Babes no dey comment for dis type.... if na Fvck and money matter... you for their rat mouth dey sharp.... dull Naija babes

Lol. You noticed. Why are they like that?

The mother was drunk. The daughter was not beaten for being drunk.

Not enough info to tell which it is. Only says the reason for the slap, but isn't clear about who was drunk.

Writers should always avoid ambiguity, unless it's for a good reason.

echelons:
Obviously the daughter.. Action and consequence.. Get drunk, get beaten.

How about drink and beat someone? Its also action and consequence. Beating another because u're drunk

okonja:
The mother is drunk because a mother in her right sense would not beat her daughter for no reason.

Lol...just because it wasn't stated doesn't mean there' was no reason

okonja:


Hun hun....I be Togolese

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Kenyan more like it

momove4real25:
:-Xbad niga spotted

fine girl found

It is the daughter, using the law of proximity.

It's really funny that a lot of people here are so sure it's the mother that was drunk, while others were sp sure that it's the daughter. The truth is, both groups are correct. The statement is contracted, thus became ambigious. If we expand the statement, then we can get the specific meaning. For example, these 2 statements can be deducted or inferred:

A mother beat hee daughter because the daughter was drunk

Or

A mother beat her daughter because the mother was drunk.

Daughter: 'because' summee it.


I'm not too good in English language sha

The op is drunk

you all failed simple English

in this scenario

****the cane she use to beat the daugher was drunk ****

the phrasal verb of this action is synometrical to the effect of the cane... not indicating maybe it was sugar cane or canosynthesis koboko..

in reference to the standard cambridge english

mesmarising the action of mother to daughter via cane is called logical parental PUNISHMENT

Because the woman,, the daughter,, and the OP were drunk.....







Why asking me such question?

Let's look at it this way
"because" in this context explains the action of the sentence.
The action of the sentence is someone beating the other.
Now the reason "being drunk" explains why the action "beating" was carried out by "who?"..... the mother!!!
So, the mother was the one drunk

Butressing, If the daughter were to be the one drunk, the sentence should have been presented as
"A mother beat her daughter for being drunk"

I think its the mother.
OK. No, tthe daughter.

Abel, how do we know the answer. Op?

ExplicitContent:


You are correct dear. Pronoun not adverb.
I was drunk myself when i made the post. I just wake up the see mentionsss..

Oops!