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[joy_the_lemur]

[snipsnip]

> Mycropht, who is paid to edit things says :
> 
> 1.  I personally think that African-American should be hyphenated.
> 2. This is the most awkward sentence.  There is a vague antecedant
for the
> pronoun "her".  Is the antecedant "Toni Morrison" or "genius"? 
Does Toni
> have a pet genius that lives with her, also female.  As highly
unlikely as
> that is, when there are two nouns before a pronoun it can be
classed as an
> error.
> 
> Mycropht is anal about grammar.
> 


I believe it was indeed the pronoun "her" and that it would've been
correct if it had 
been replaced by "Morrison" or anything else more specific than the
pronoun.  I 
suppose it's in a grey area now because that use/construction is more
commonplace 
and has become generally accepted.  Or everyone's slacking off in
grammar.  ;-)

-Joy, posting at the risk of having this message show up 5 days later.