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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Is this grammar correct?

And then he must figure out how to finesse it past the majority of his self-serving, mutually negative, deliberately obtuse "peers", who can always be expected to prefer their former viewpoints no matter how weak, inadequate, or paradox-ridden they may have been.
  

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Hi, And then he must figure out how to finesse it past the majority of his self-serving, mutually negative, deliberately obtuse "peers", who can always be expected to prefer their former viewpoints no matter how weak, inadequate, or paradox-ridden they may have been. Yes, it's correct, although obiously it needs a context. Some people would suggest you should not start a sentence with 'and'.

— Clive

  • Hi, And then he must figure out how to finesse it past the majority of his self-serving, mutually negative, deliberately obtuse "peers", who can always be expected to prefer their former viewpoints no matter how weak, inadequate, or paradox-ridden they may have been.
  • Yes, it's correct, although obiously it needs a context.
  • Some people would suggest you should not start a sentence with 'and'.
  • The phrase 'mutually negative' is a bit hard to understand in regard to a group of people.
  • I'd put a comma before 'no matter .
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Hi,

And then he must figure out how to finesse it past the majority of his self-serving, mutually negative, deliberately obtuse "peers", who can always be expected to prefer their former viewpoints no matter how weak, inadequate, or paradox-ridden they may have been.

Yes, it's correct, although obiously it needs a context.

Some people would
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