YOU SAID:
my mother answered the phone in a possessive tone
INTO JAPANESE
私の母は電話を所有的な口調で答えた
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My mother answered the phone in a proprietary tone
INTO JAPANESE
母は電話に独自のトーンで応答しました
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My mother answered the phone with her own tone
INTO JAPANESE
母は自分の口調で電話に出ました
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My mother answered her phone
INTO JAPANESE
母が電話に出ました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Mother answered the phone
INTO JAPANESE
母が電話に出た
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Mother answered the phone
That didn't even make that much sense in English.