Christmas is coming and Black Friday is also coming. I will buy the gifts for both of my family and friends.

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Are the following sentences correct and natural?

Christmas is coming and Black Friday is also coming. I will buy the gifts for both of my family and friends.
 

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I would write:
Christmas is coming/approaching, and so is Black Friday. I will buy gifts for my family and friends.
 

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Who wrote those sentences, @output?

If you wrote them yourself, please say so, and tell us in what context.
 

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written by myself.
 

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written by I wrote them myself.
Note my correction above. If you want to use "written by", you need "They were written by me".
You still need to give us the context in which you want to use them.
 

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Please close the thread, thank you so much.
 
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