[Ads-l] Wrong preposition creates impossible situation

Bill Mullins amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 21 16:50:08 UTC 2021


>  The following sentence appears in an article on Vox about how abortion is
>  portrayed on television:
>
>  In “Before and After,” which aired in 1996, 16-year-old Julia gets pregnant
>  with her high school boyfriend.


Does this fix the problem?

"Julia gets pregnant under her high school boyfriend."


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