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Originally Posted by jmwking
If we're parsing English and if you connect the two parts of the rule, "Such actions include, but are not limited to ... attempting to gain an advantage by interfering with the ball after a goal or by failing to immediately pass the ball to the nearest official after a whistle is blown", the second use of the word "by" indicates that the "failing to immediately pass" is a method of gaining an advantage. If that's not the intent, the rule should be reworded. Just adding a comma or semi-colon can't fix that.
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Nice explanation. Sounds like jmwking was a much better English student in high school than I was.
If we were studying something I was interested in (Antigone, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Animal Farm, Catch-22, The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick, The Pearl, Crime and Punishment, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, The Call of the Wild), I could often get A's.
However, if we were studying something I was not at all interested in (The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Ethan Frome), I would be lucky to get C's.
Vocabulary? Fuhgeddaboudit!