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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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Well, its direct resolution is also as I have proposed above, I believe. When a sentence's subject is composite and inhomogeneous in this way, one simply must include multiple verb forms in the sentence -- if, that is, one wants to preserve grammatical coherence. It's inelegant.
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