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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Grammar and Spelling on the Net
Message-ID: <6113@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 17:52:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 17:52:47 1986
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In article <544@dsi1.UUCP>, lee@dsi1.UUCP (Lee Hagerty) writes:
> In article <604@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) writes:
> >	"Each person does as he thinks best."
> > [...] The ambiguity is not the fault of disagreeing plurality.
> 
> This second example is not ambiguous, because the pronoun and its
> antecedent agree. 

Lee, you're wrong, and MKR is correct. There is an ambiguity, 
and number agreement doesn't correct it.
" Fred, the leader, has such omnipotence in the sect, that
each person does as he thinks best."

Peter Ladkin