pronouns

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pronouns

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Can one use:

1) I grow my own potatoes. Why should I buy them from you?
instead of:
2) I grow my own potatoes. Why should I buy potatoes from you.

Can one use:
3) We produce our own milk. Why should we buy it from you?
instead of:
4) We produce our own milk. Why should we buy milk from you?

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Re: pronouns

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(Not a grammar issue but...) Yes, they could reasonably bear that interpretation.
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