You know, you can always submit some examples of the kind of awful sentences you're talking about, and the fan grammarians can try to figure out what to call the problem and turn it into a neat little packaged question. That's what I did with the gerunds-with-possessives question. (There's a closed community to which the grammarians belong where these things are hashed out before answers are posted.)
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Date: 2008-04-22 02:31 am (UTC)You know, you can always submit some examples of the kind of awful sentences you're talking about, and the fan grammarians can try to figure out what to call the problem and turn it into a neat little packaged question. That's what I did with the gerunds-with-possessives question. (There's a closed community to which the grammarians belong where these things are hashed out before answers are posted.)