My Week Proofreading Policy Drafts
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My Week Proofreading Policy Drafts
Monday at a proofreader's week at a parliamentary research unit: I flagged a pronoun chain that collapsed after the third reference. The policy draft named the funding gap, and it reappeared without warning in a footnote. Eva asked me to verify that these demonstratives still pointed to the same noun phrase.
Such requests are routine, yet that one arrived minutes before the committee vote. By evening I understood why Sergio prefers former and latter only when two items stay in close proximity. Laila warned that those substitutions with one and ones can fail when antecedents remain plural.
A shared principle emerged: advanced cohesion devices bind paragraphs only when antecedents stay explicit. In a proofreader's week at a parliamentary research unit, editors often ask whether a pronoun chain remains transparent after the third reference. This is what the policy team feared most:
