"The sustenance the healthy thirty-year-old wife proved incapable of providing her ailing fifty-six-year old husband was more than compensated for by Howie's jovial support"
this sentence is from "eveyman" by Philp Roth im having a hard time finding the subject "the sustenance" and "the healthy wife" It seems like they both are subjects and it doesnt make sense if so
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I'm having a hard time finding the punctuation.
— Wilpeter
I'm having a hard time finding the punctuation.
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