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Is there anything wrong with "among my friends"?
My dad is a "Mr. Mom". He was 50 years old when I was born. I didn't know why he was at home instead of Mom, but I considered myself very lucky because I was the only one who had Dad around among my friends.
2017年6月13日 11:30
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There is nothing wrong with "among my friends" (or "amongst my friends"). You do need to add a possessive pronoun before 'dad' though, e.g., "I was the only one to my *my* dad around amongst my friends".
2017年6月13日
Thank you, Sierra Cleland, Paul and Su. Ki.
2017年6月14日
Agreed.
You have to capitalise 'Mom' and 'Dad' here, because they are proper nouns, the same as people's' names are proper nouns. Using lower case would only be possible if you were using them as common nouns, as in 'my dad'. This is a key distinction. Just as you have to capitalise 'John' but mustn't capitalise 'my brother', you have to capitalise 'Mom' but mustn't capitalise 'my mom'.
Capitalisation (or lack thereof) is not an optional nicety. There are rules.
2017年6月13日
When they are used in place of their name, you do. If he had written 'my mom/my dad' then it would be incorrect to capitalise.
2017年6月13日
There is nothing wrong. You don't have to capitalize "Mom" and "Dad" but you can.
2017年6月13日
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