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What’s the antecedent?

Letter from F.a. Rios

Grammar – July 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine

Editors:

Among the deformities that I noticed on page 11 of your June 2004 issue, the following may or may not be the most egregious:

“Although shy at first, it is possible for a stranger to spend quality time with the town’s mayor.”

Who or what is shy: “it,” “the stranger,” or “the town’s mayor”? Your author of “many other books” left something dangling in the mountain air.

F. A. Rios

Denver