Furcifer
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Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
14.5% of all anthropogenic GHG emission are from livestock and the alarmists, knowing they're the biggest contributors, continue to avoid and deny the significance.
I was always told the basic rule was, when you use commas the sentence should read the same if you remove what's between them. So the above becomes:
14.5% of all anthropogenic GHG emission are from livestock and the alarmists continue to avoid and deny the significance.
A forum member insists "knowing they are the biggest contributors" applies to "livestock". Which doesn't make any sense to me, because in my mind it clearly applies to "alarmists".
Is this a run on sentence? Does it only make sense as two complete sentences:
14.5% of all anthropogenic GHG emission are from livestock. Alarmists knowing they are the biggest contributors continue to avoid and deny the significance.
Does the "they" clearly refer to the "alarmists" or does it refer to the "livestock" in the preceding sentence?
14.5% of all anthropogenic GHG emission are from livestock and the alarmists, knowing they're the biggest contributors, continue to avoid and deny the significance.
I was always told the basic rule was, when you use commas the sentence should read the same if you remove what's between them. So the above becomes:
14.5% of all anthropogenic GHG emission are from livestock and the alarmists continue to avoid and deny the significance.
A forum member insists "knowing they are the biggest contributors" applies to "livestock". Which doesn't make any sense to me, because in my mind it clearly applies to "alarmists".
Is this a run on sentence? Does it only make sense as two complete sentences:
14.5% of all anthropogenic GHG emission are from livestock. Alarmists knowing they are the biggest contributors continue to avoid and deny the significance.
Does the "they" clearly refer to the "alarmists" or does it refer to the "livestock" in the preceding sentence?
