help with grammar!!

[ilovemarkb]

this doesn't sound correct

I found it difficult to ask her about her husband who had recently died

or does it?

[ojread2]

I'd take out the first her and put the persons name and transpose the last 2 words

I found it difficult to ask Judy about her husband who had died recently

[HowardKennitby]

As above with addition of comma after husband.

[Pooka1950]

It sounds a little clumsy. If rewriting is an option I'd be inclined to put "Her husband had recently died and I found it difficult to ask her about him"
Just my opinion of course!

[FredPuli43]

The sequence and choice of words is fine, but just put a comma after 'husband' and it will read more naturally. We would pause briefly after 'husband' when saying the sentence. The comma indicates that pause.

Imagine that the sentence continued 'but I did'. Would it sound correct then? It would, because that's how people speak.(You'd need two commas then; one either side of 'who had recently died' )

[MarkRae]

Indeed, because it's a subordinate clause.

[wolf63]

Or

I found it difficult to ask he about her recently deceased husband.

[ilovemarkb]

Thanks Guys!!!

[owdhamer]

Dont ask me,I'm hopeless

[factor-fiction]

I agree with these answers. If I had read the original sentence I'd have been wondering how many other husbands she had.

[Old_Geezer]

Personally I'd have just shoved a comma in after "husband", since I'd normally pause there were I saying it, since the information that follows is additional and the sentence still make sense were it not there.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah I see Fred has already said as much.

[jomifl]

I would have written the same as wolf but with an 'r' thrown in at the appropriate point.

[coccinelle]

Just a question; why would someone want to ask about someone's husband if he'd died? You can't ask; how's your husband? Surely the sentence is I found it difficult to talk about her husband, who had recently died.

[woofgang]

you might be asking about his medical history or anything about him so it is reasonable to ask someone about their late husband.

[coccinelle]

But there's a difference between asking something about someone and asking about someone, woofgang.

[crisgal]

could it be
I found it difficult asking her?

[ichkeria]

It seems perfectly ok to me as it is, unless the 'hers' refer to two different people.

[woofgang]

"I needed to get a complete family history of diabetes, and asked about her parents, but I found it difficult to ask her about her husband, who had recently died."