The police officers are one of us.

Thread starter tufguy
Start date Jun 30, 2017

tufguy

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Jun 30, 2017

#1

1) The police officers are one of us.

2) The police officers are one of among us.

Please check my sentences.

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Rover_KE

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Jun 30, 2017

#2

Neither sentence makes sense.

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Tdol

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Jun 30, 2017

#3

Police officers are like/the same as us would work.

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GoesStation

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Jun 30, 2017

#4

You could say A police officer is one of us. I don't like the sentence much but I think it would be understood.

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