I don't love her and/or him

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ademoglu

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Hi,

Let's say that I love neither my mom and my father. And I say that to my sister:

1- I don't love her and him.
2- I don't love her or him.
3- I don't love either her or him.

I think the best one is number 3 and I also think that sentence 2 may be OK informally. But I cannot make sure of the first one. Could you please tell me which one grammatically OK?

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Raymott

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I agree with you. But context might change whether 3 was better than 2.
Better would be "I don't love either of them."
 

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1 No
2 Maybe
3 Yes

Can you find the errors in your post?
 

Tdol

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Better would be "I don't love either of them."

I don't love them would work too- it's unlikely that someone would come away with the impression that you only loved one of them.
 
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