If you or your child, advisee, or student uses Naviance to guide the college application process, you may find this thread worth reading.https://twitter.com/camulhern/status/1116391143145639938 …
As a practical matter, the principal question is: how many readers will notice the issue, and be distracted by it? Grammar does have a logical structure, but native speakers of a language have seldom felt bound by it; what tends to matter is what one can get away with.
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On the whole, I think most writers conclude that it is better to avoid such struggles than to resolve them by recourse to recondite grammatical principles. Almost always one can devise an alternative formulation in which no problem arises. I have proposed one above in this case.
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Right. This little conundrum could have been avoided with a bit of judicious re-writing. But I still think it’s a fun puzzle.
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