When two people are mentioned in a sentence, is it incorrect to use pronouns in the next sentence if they are both mentioned again? I have three examples.
Example 1: Each morning Elizabeth walked past Teresa's house. Elizabeth thought it was odd that Teresa's door was wide open on this particular morning, long after Teresa usually departed for her office.
Okay, that was nice and spelled-out, but could I also write the following?
Each morning Elizabeth walked past Teresa's house. She thought it was odd that Teresa's door was wide open on this particular morning, long after Teresa usually departed for her office.
Example 2: Elizabeth, after listening to the doorbell chime three times unanswered, called Teresa's cell phone. She picked up and began to whimper and sob.
Example 3: Elizabeth had often smoothed her face into a pleasant mask when Teresa had pulled her aside at parties, usually to blab on and on about her husband's new boat or her ever-approaching trips to distant locales. She struck Elizabeth as the sort of a woman who would cry over a chipped nail, but this time seemed different.
These situations come up in my writing a lot. I've always read that you should always use the proper name if there is even the possibility of confusion, but this often leads to stiff-sounding sentences. What do you think? Is it grammatically correct to use a pronoun in the situations above?
Example 1: Each morning Elizabeth walked past Teresa's house. Elizabeth thought it was odd that Teresa's door was wide open on this particular morning, long after Teresa usually departed for her office.
Okay, that was nice and spelled-out, but could I also write the following?
Each morning Elizabeth walked past Teresa's house. She thought it was odd that Teresa's door was wide open on this particular morning, long after Teresa usually departed for her office.
Example 2: Elizabeth, after listening to the doorbell chime three times unanswered, called Teresa's cell phone. She picked up and began to whimper and sob.
Example 3: Elizabeth had often smoothed her face into a pleasant mask when Teresa had pulled her aside at parties, usually to blab on and on about her husband's new boat or her ever-approaching trips to distant locales. She struck Elizabeth as the sort of a woman who would cry over a chipped nail, but this time seemed different.
These situations come up in my writing a lot. I've always read that you should always use the proper name if there is even the possibility of confusion, but this often leads to stiff-sounding sentences. What do you think? Is it grammatically correct to use a pronoun in the situations above?
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