Re: Off Topic - English Syntax

"David MacQuigg" niggled:
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> The antecedent of "which avoids" has to be singular.
It is "the switch" which is singular. You then give two possible objects of the
switch. I parsed the sentence as:

 "The switch ..  avoids .."

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> -- Dave

Chris
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