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Originally Posted by GarthB
BZZZZZT! Sorry. Thanks for playing.
But, nice try.
Actually, under common usage, there really is not an error in the sentence. However, picking nits to the point of making language "un-understandable" (sic), the antecedent of "her" is not "Toni Morrison." The antecedent is"Toni Morrison's genius."
Therefore, the sentence technically should read "Toni Morrison's genius enables IT to create novels..."
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I agree with your first point, that there's really nothing wrong with the sentence as written. It's kind of a run-on sentence, and therefore poorly structured but I detect no actual grammatical error.
I disagree that it is Toni's genius that is creating the novels. Toni creates the novels; her genius enables her to. I don't think that's what greymule is going to say is the error.
But it's definitely not SDS's desire to litter the sentence with superfluous commas, either.
Edited to add:
I've discovered that Garth's answer (that "her" is the error) is indeed the reason the PSAT people changed their minds and agreed the sentence was flawed. I still disagree, but I'm no English teacher; merely an honors English graduate.
