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Usage of the words: those and these and them



 
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Usage of the words: those and these and them #1 (permalink) Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:31 am   Usage of the words: those and these and them
 

That would be about 100 billion stars. But of course, you couldn't even count them in your lifetime, could you?

Is this sentence wrong?
You couldn't even count those in your lifetime, could you?

The sentence I have just mentioned sounds odd to me but I just want to know that whether it's correct or not.
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Usage of the words: those and these and them #2 (permalink) Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:55 am   Usage of the words: those and these and them
 

'Them' is fine, and it sounds better than 'those' to me.
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