Dash M. answered • 08/16/22
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In this instance, the adjective clause where the focus is on consultation and not mere assistance acquiring particular travel documents modifies both immigration lawyers and immigration consultants because the conjunction 'or' signifies that the syntactic scope is meant to encompass both nouns equally causing them to share the relative clause.
Christian D.
When combining any series of items in a sentence, isn't a conjunction of “and” or “or” always used between the final two items?
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Dash M.
That would depend on the author's intent. If the author wanted to indicate that all the preceding noun phrases were to be modified by the relative clause, a comma would be needed after immigration lawyers to delineate the last two nouns as sequential items of a list. However, without the comma, the syntactic structure would then suggest that the use of 'or' as a linking conjunct modifies only those last two noun phrases and not the preceding.
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Christian D.
But if both are included it would not be a sentence. But this wording has a noun, verb, and most importantly a period. Wouldn't a conjunctive of "and" or "or" need to be placed between "enterprise services, immigration lawyers"? Otherwise, it's just a series of items, and shouldn't a series of items have a conjunctive between the last two items?08/16/22