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navi
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Are these sentences correct:

1-I had a fight with my sister, which is what people do. (People have fights with their sisters)

2-I had a fight with John, which is something people do. (People have fights.
Obviously they don't all have fights with John.)

I think they are both correct and context determines what exactly is the thing that people do. The listener has to figure out which part of the predicate of the first part of the sentence is the thing that people do.

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Okaasan
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Yes, I think the context might let people figure out what you really mean -- that people have fights. But perhaps an EFL student would take the sentences too literally and think that you mean that people fight with your sister or with John.

Perhaps wording them My sister and I had a fight, which is what people do and John and I had a fight... would be better???
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