its4christian wrote:
Old tread but checking if somebody can answer my doubt.
Doesn't "with more than 75 carefully engineered structures" refers to scale and not to the settlements? Comma + preposition should refer to the noun right before the comma, correct?
------------------------------------------------------Doesn't "with more than 75 carefully engineered structures" refers to scale and not to the settlements? Comma + preposition should refer to the noun right before the comma, correct?
no. in fact, prepositional phrases that follow commas generally DO NOT refer to the preceding noun. these are almost always adverbial modifiers, which modify the entire preceding clause.
the way this problem has been transcribed, though, the prepositional phrase in question does not actually follow a comma. has the question been transcribed incorrectly?
