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Please explain to me ◆I would love to be like her. ◆I would love to be having my son singing in my birthday party. If I add this two sentences, can I say like this : "I would love to be like her having my son singing in my birthday party". Or how can I add those sentences and make one which sounds natural? TIA

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Hi Hasib, we should phrase it like: "I would love to be like her, having my son sing at my birthday party." Here are several different ways of saying it, with small differences. "I would love to have a son like hers that can sing at my birthday party." In this sentence, we are focusing on the son's ability. "I would love to be like her, having a son that can sing at my birthday party." This one is similar to your sentence, but we are focusing on the difference between our sons. If we want to focus on the writer, "you", we can say: "I would love to have my son sing at my birthday party, like her son did at hers. "I would love to have my son sing at my birthday party, like hers did at her birthday. These are all different ways of saying it, but I think the closest one to your sentence would be the first one: I would love to be like her, having my son sing at my birthday party." ^ because we are keeping the part of "I would love to be like her". I hope that helps!
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Thanks Georgette and Joanna
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I would probably say, "I would love to have my son sing at my birthday party, just like she had." This is assuming that her son already sang at her party. I think that "had" gives more of a sense of the completed action of singing. You could also say, "....just as she had," which sounds a little more formal.
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I would love to have my son singing at my birthday party, just like she has.

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