| Link: The Guardian, ‘IPCC investigates alleged student assaults […]’ |
The journalist’s determination to be pithy has undermined logic: the mismatched syntax in the final section of the sentence results in a
statement that exactly reverses the true state of affairs. To avoid such ambiguity, relative clauses should immediately follow the noun they qualify. The reader should not be expected to work out the logic from external knowledge or additional research.
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