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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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The police had increased the number of men guarding the protesters. Among them Ken.

Does it sound like Ken is...

...one of the police officers?

...one of the police officers who were not guarding the protesters before but is now?

...one of the protesters?

  

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anonymous The police had increased the number of men guarding the protesters. Among them Ken. You can't chop the sentence up like that, so it's hard to give you an answer.

  • anonymous The police had increased the number of men guarding the protesters.
  • Among them Ken.
  • You can't chop the sentence up like that, so it's hard to give you an answer.
  • " Ken is now a protester, but it is such a clumsy way of putting it that the reader is not sure.
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anonymousThe police had increased the number of men guarding the protesters. Among them Ken.

You can't chop the sentence up like that, so it's hard to give you an answer. If you put it back together, you get "The police had increased the number of men guarding the protesters, among them Ken." Ken is now a protester, but it is such a clumsy way of putting it

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