Editorial: Reword 3 grammatically ambiguous sentences#12651
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The sentences are in:
In each case:
The form is roughly
X is a thing whose Y is foo and is bar, where it's ambiguous where theis barattaches: does it modify X or Y?The ambiguity is resolved in the status quo by higher-level knowledge that one of the interpretations doesn't make sense.
Instead, disambiguate grammatically by repeating the subject before the problematic "is".
For discussion in Matrix, see https://matrixlogs.bakkot.com/WHATWG/2026-06-12#L6 and following
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