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SpareNo1:
Lol fine boy

desreek9:
wow

2dice01:
maybe masters in za ozza room

Exceptionalgod:
you sef too troublesome, na to dey look for trouble be ur hubby?? y no kuku tell am say she dey lie, why using lai Muhammad

RentedReality:
Their problem is knives, as guns are to the Americans

Our problem is our leaders, as flies are to a cow's tail

I say we give them our leaders and take their knives

Maybe then, the life of this young man would've been saved

Adukey:
It's a complex sentence - conglomeration of a main clause and a subordinate clause. In order to analyse, you must recognize this subordination.
Thus, The main clause is *'The mother beats up her daughter'* while the subordinate clause is *'because she was drunk'*
The subordination is triggered by *'because'*. While examining the sentence, the 'because' may appear to be the one with the problem but *'she'* is the one creating the confusion. In TGG, there's what is known as the deep structure pronoun and the surface structure pronoun. Obviously, the 'she' is a surface structure pronoun because it's making reference to a noun behind it which is of course in the main clause. 'she' is an anaphoric pronoun which refers back to one of the two nouns earlier mentioned. This could either be 'the mother' or 'daughter'.
To determine the person drunk is based on our tree or sentence analysis. You can either consider the pronoun to make reference to the mother or the daughter. Any which way, your analysis will be correct as long as you don't misplace the position of the pronoun. To make it easier to detect, you may just change the gender case of any of the nouns.
E.g. The Father beats up his daughter because she was drunk.
OR
The mother beats up her son because she was drunk.

From the two modified sentences, you know who the pronoun should refer to.

ChildOfDoom:
i remember one time i was staying on my own in Benin, my dad informed me that he was coming over for an engagement in benin and so needed a place to perch for the night.


Knowing that he was a nuisance, i didn't want him to know i stayed on my own as he might overstay his welcome. So i led him to my hostel and made him believe i squatted there (e nor provide accommodation money for me).


I couldn't even take him into my guy's room so they dont laugh at me due to the state of my dad. I led him to the reading room and zoomed off. Na bench e sleep while i went to my master-sized mouka foam.


The next day, i came in early enough so he doesn't suspect.

sarrki:
Even without the judgment passed
Chest beater
He's ipib occultist

daryoor:
na only u dey laugh

myself13:
Because bad habits and vices are mostly associated with the young, and the young are mostly punished for recklessness such as getting drunk; bearing in mind that the matter here is between a mother and her daughter, it is obvious the drunk is the daughter.

LionDeLeo:
You try.

mikejj:
why will a woman gets drunk at first...beside where is the father he knows which of them is drunk.kiki

MissWrite:
The mother, I would say .

A mother beat her daughter because she was drunk.

"A mother" is the subject of the sentence. She's the one doing, and who's action is qualified. Without the conjunction: A mother beat her daughter. She was drunk.
"A mother" is the subject in the first sentence, while "daughter" is the object. In the second sentence, if the daughter is to become the subject, it would be stated. But the pronoun "She" is used because it's taken for granted that "A mother" remains the subject.

RadicallyBlunt:
If it was d mother, it would be;
A drunken mother beats up her daughter.

ogorwyne:
This is an ambiguous statement. Both are females, and the 'she' could be any of the two. Only the writer can tell us who was drunk.

ogorwyne:
But my common sense is telling me that the drunk fellow is the daughter.

Chikita66:
The mother.

nurey:
It's the daughter
If it was the mother, the write sentence would be
A mother beats up her daughter, because she was drunk.

daryoor:
u be olodo. unilag olodo . it is impossible because the statement is ambiguous.

RadicallyBlunt:
It depends on the context of usage...the event from the beginning of the article.

LionDeLeo:
Lol.

From the statement, it is impossible to say which of the two females is drunk.


To make it explicit, you write it this way,

A mother beats up her daughter because she (mother) was drunk.

Or

A mother beats up her daughter because she (daughter) was drunk.

jonaifame22:
bless you bro,this came in handybless you bro,this came in handy

kimbraa:
Selective government. If it's IPOB matter, the incompetent brain dead dullard would've been quick to brand them a terrorist organisation. God is already punishing him for his wickedness.

Preciousgirl:
I can't believe I played ludo with my former boss and when I beat him, he gets really angry. Just a game o.

Please what should I do?

Blackhawk03:
For?