And " The manager, who [ m ] the authorities had publicly castigated for allowing the accounts to languish, was up against a fractious board . " I think the trad . grammarians call this a clash resulting from a parenthetical phrase, and go for " who " rather than " whom ".
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*" In the rare cases ( 19 so far ) where a service member has been awarded more than one Medal of Honor, regulations specify that an appropriate award device will be centered on the MOH ribbon and neck medal . " The parenthetical phrase would be less intrusive if place after " Honor " ( i . e ., before the comma ).
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If you create a disambiguation page without the parenthetical phrase " ( disambiguation ) " in the title, you should list the page at Wikipedia : Links to disambiguating pages ( shortcut : WP : LDP ), so that it doesn't get listed as an orphan page ( no incoming links ), and so the Wikipedia software can identify it as a problem should there be lots of incoming links.
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In its discussion of subject-verb agreement ( pages 350 356 ), " Words into Type " says, among many other things, " The number of the subject and verb is not affected by intervening words introduced by " with, together with, including, as well as, no less than, plus, " and similar expressions . " So if you were writing " John, with his nine brothers, & " or " John, as well as his nine brothers, & " or " John, plus his nine brothers, & " or the like, you'd want to use " is moving . " On the other hand, with regard to words introduced by " and " and punctuated as if they were parenthetical, it says, " The copy editor should not be misled by punctuation that makes a plural subject appear to be a singular subject followed by a parenthetical phrase . " The examples that follow are punctuated with commas rather than parentheses; one of them is " The great diversity of the risks covered, and the complex nature of the business, "'introduce "'production problems of of an unusual character " ( emphasis added ).
