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Vsuresh Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Ambiguous construction

Please help me with this sentence. This is a newspaper report.

The state assembly speaker XYZ on Monday disqualified 25 dissident ruling MLAs, owing allegiance to sidelined party leader.

Question:

Does the phrase " owing allegiance to sidelined party leader" modify the assembly speaker or the ruling MLAs?

  

Top answer

vsuresh Does the phrase " owing allegiance to sidelined party leader" modify the assembly speaker or the ruling MLAs? The MLAs. The comma is wrong and should be deleted.

— Mister Micawber

  • vsuresh Does the phrase " owing allegiance to sidelined party leader" modify the assembly speaker or the ruling MLAs?
  • The MLAs.
  • The comma is wrong and should be deleted.
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vsureshDoes the phrase " owing allegiance to sidelined party leader" modify the assembly speaker or the ruling MLAs?

The MLAs. The comma is wrong and should be deleted.

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