# Shared fact and Fact Types, Sentence isn't reading correctly

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**Created:** [February 27, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/shared-fact-and-fact-types-sentence-isnt-reading-correctly/3930 "2022-02-27T21:34:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![mapleleaf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/mapleleaf/32/43_2.png) [@mapleleaf](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/mapleleaf)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/shared-fact-and-fact-types-sentence-isnt-reading-correctly/3930/1 "2022-02-27T21:34:38Z")

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For the principal person (the couple), I have this in sentence template of the Fact Type for Residence (family) :  
They resided\< [Desc]\>\< [PlaceDetails]\>\< in [Place:Plain]\>\< [Date]\>.

For a different role that I want to use for the children, I have this sentence:  
[Person] resided\< [Desc]\>\< [PlaceDetails]\>\< in [Place:Plain]\>\< [Date]\>.

When I go to Edit Person to see how the sentence reads for the child, the name of the father is shown in the sentence - not the name of the child.

If I change the Fact Type for the child’s role to this:  
[Person:HeShe] resided\< [Desc]\>\< [PlaceDetails]\>\< in [Place:Plain]\>\< [Date]\>.  
the sentence for the female child reads “He resided…” instead of “She resided…”

I have “Use description field” check marked and double-checked that I have selected the proper role.

What am I doing wrong, or isn’t it possible to do what I want?

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**Author:** ![kevinm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@kevinm](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kevinm)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/shared-fact-and-fact-types-sentence-isnt-reading-correctly/3930/2 "2022-02-27T21:49:15Z")

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> [@mapleleaf](#):
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> [Person] resided\< [Desc]\>\< [PlaceDetails]\>\< in [Place:Plain]\>\< [Date]\>.

I don’t use the family fact. There’s a sentence like I think you want in the Witness role of the standard Residence fact…

[ThisPerson] lived in the residence of [person] \< [PlaceDetails]\>\< [Place]\>\< [Date]\>.

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**Author:** ![thejerrybryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/thejerrybryan/32/404_2.png) [@thejerrybryan](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/thejerrybryan)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/shared-fact-and-fact-types-sentence-isnt-reading-correctly/3930/3 "2022-02-28T00:37:15Z")

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For an individual fact, the person owning the fact is referred to as [Person].

For family facts, the couple who own the fact is referred to as [Couple] and can be separated out [Husband] and [Wife] if need be.

Your question was specific to family facts, but the answer really is common to both family and individual facts when they are shared via a role. In the role sentence, you need [ThisPerson] for the person assigned the role and a [Person] variable or [Couple] variable in a role sentence refer to the person or couple owning the original fact.

The reason the [Person:HeShe] is picking up “He” for a female child is because the Person part of Person:HeShe is referring to the father and he is male. I’ve never tried it, but I suspect [ThisPerson:HeShe] could be used to pick up a pronoun for the person owning the role sentence.

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**Author:** ![mapleleaf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/mapleleaf/32/43_2.png) [@mapleleaf](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/mapleleaf)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/shared-fact-and-fact-types-sentence-isnt-reading-correctly/3930/4 "2022-02-28T11:16:44Z")

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Thank you Kevin and Jerry. All of those ideas will work and gives me good examples to try out.