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grammar trouble among the false claims

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The article currently contains this putative sentence:

He falsely claimed to be an "ambassador for the Republic of San Marino", the author of Maritime Registries of the World and The Wonders of Italy, and to serve on a committee of the National Portrait Gallery in London.[1][2]

It contains two occurrences of the conjunction "and", which is quite a few. But it actually needs a third.

  • One joins two verbs: "He claimed to be [. . .] and to serve [. . .]".
  • One joins the two objects of the preposition "of": "the author of "Maritime Registries" and "The Wonders of Italy".
  • One (currently missing) joins two predicate nominatives: "claimed to be an ambassador and the author".

I supplied the missing one, but it was removed. I'll put it back with a link to this discussion. If you aren't clear on why it's needed, let's talk about it here. TypoBoy (talk) 23:06, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference guard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Achilleas Michalis Kallakis. Debrett's, 16 January 2013. Archived at archive.org Retrieved 28 September 2017.