how many boys and girls are in this sentence:
She told me to tell you that he was told not to tell her.
2006-08-03 21:00:24 · 12 answers · asked by Omar 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
1) If I don't know who is speaking this to whom I can say:
There are least 4 distinct people -- we can say for sure that there is at least one boy and one girl.
That is, 'he' is one boy, 'she' is one girl; 'her' may be the SAME girl or a second one.
We do not know the gender of 'you' and 'me' from the evidence you've provided.
2) Now if this is not a quote of someone else, but YOU (Omar) speaking directly to ME (bruhaha), I can say that there are either four or five people as follows:
There are exactly THREE males ('he', 'me' and 'you')
There is either ONE girl ('she' = 'her') or TWO ('she' and 'her').
But the odd thing that everyone has missed so far, is that we cannot necessarily limit this to 4 or 5 people
I don't know the NUMBER of "you". This pronoun can be used addressing one person or a whole group of people, so instead of four of five individuals (if 'you' is singular) there could be an unlimited number! (That actually can apply to both #1 AND #2, since I might be just part of the whole group of people addressed as "you".)
2006-08-04 06:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
4
2006-08-04 21:41:46 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ HeartStolen ♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly as many as six, but all we can say for certain is: Maybe 2 girls (or the She and the Her) could be the same one. Only 1 boy for sure. There are possibly three unidentified persons in this sentence as we do not know the gender of the "me", "you" or whomever told him not to tell her.
2006-08-03 21:10:10 · answer #3 · answered by green ideas sleep furiously 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 girls and 2 boys
2006-08-03 21:07:21 · answer #4 · answered by mickurahul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's only 1 boy for sure, and 2 girls for sure, so the other 1 could be a boy or girl.
2006-08-04 12:27:58 · answer #5 · answered by Girasol 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 4 people, the "her" at the end of the sentence is the same person as the "she" at the beginning of the sentence. There is one boy and one girl that we are sure about. We are not told the gender of the "me" and the "you" in the sentence.
2006-08-04 05:37:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
two women a million boy a million me a million you So if each me and you're women then four women and a million boy If each me and you're boys then two women and three boys If me and you're a boy and a woman then three women and a couple of boys!
2016-08-28 12:54:13 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zero
2006-08-03 21:08:11 · answer #8 · answered by Rick A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 unless the last her is the she at the start.
So 2 girls, 1 boy and it depends on what sex you and me are.
2006-08-03 21:05:49 · answer #9 · answered by susanradford18 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 girls and a guy. I think
2006-08-03 21:09:06 · answer #10 · answered by kdjacobs72168 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋