ccooley wrote:
I'm not even totally sure that's right! For instance, this sentence is probably grammatical, according to the GMAT:
'The book,which had a portrait of George Washington onits cover, was very dull.'
Two pronouns, same antecedent, one is inside of a modifier introduced by the other.
For what it's worth, I've also never heard that cited as a grammar rule, and I've never noticed it being tested on the GMAT. There's a somewhat complicated syntactic reason why the original example is wrong, but
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