11.   Go ask your mother.

12.   I asked the mother.

13.   I asked his mother, and she said the cop was looking for a weapon.

14.   I asked my mother.

15.   I asked her mother.

16.   I asked my mother, Helen, to join me, expecting her to decline.

17.   I asked my mother, repeating propaganda that I had heard so frequently.

18.   I asked my mother if she knew what happened to him.

19.   It took Chin, a writer living in Brentwood, Calif., years before she asked her mother about Angel Island.

20.   It was not until his sophomore year at Princeton, prompted by he knows not what, that Foer asked his mother about the story.