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> My best friend writes a very popular online hockey column. He
> was flamed
> for the grammatical awkwardness of the following sentence:
>
> "Gretzky at 38 is still better than half the players in their primes."
>
> Could someone cite chapter-and-verse the rule(s) he has violated here?
> Have we a "squinting modifier" or something far more dreadful?
It's a question of audience. Sounds like a perfectly good sports sentence to me, at least spoken. The fans know what you mean.
As a sentence in a technical communication, the problems go far beyond grammar.
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