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StatementTerminator19-Aug-14 11:40
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Both are perfectly correct, but normally pronouns are omitted when understood because it can sound redundant.

So while "I sat on the couch and I was hungry" is fine, it often doesn't sound good to repeat pronouns that way, so most people will just say "I sat on the couch and was hungry."

Otherwise you end up with sentences like "I sat on the couch and I was hungry, so I ate some leftovers from when I had dinner last night." It sounds better to say "I sat on the couch and was hungry, so I ate some leftovers from dinner last night."

You have to be careful with ambiguity though, for instance:

"I sat on the couch, my dog joined me, and the hunger grew."

Are you hungry? Is the dog hungry? Are you both hungry? A pronoun would help there.
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