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[Casiopea]

Please be reminded. This is not a chatroom. Please make sure your comments deal with the poster's question.

[HaraKiriBlade]

For one thing, the unclear antecedent for "that" made me wonder if the book or the president was supposed to be the pop-up.

You couldn't have said it better, Delmobile. I thought the sentence meant that the president was the pop-up.

That said, could the sentence be corrected so that the pronoun - antecedent relationship is clear?

[Delmobile]

Thank you for leading us away from the kitchen, HaraKiriBlade. :)

Hmmm, let's see. It will be quite interesting reading a book by a president that's a pop-up. I suppose there is an argument to be made that, since "who" is usually the pronoun we use for people, the antecedent is clear enough, but I disagree.

First, I would add the word "book." There are too many things in American culture that pop up for "pop-up" to be immediately clear as a book, in my opinion.

"It will be interesting to read a pop-up book by a former president" would work, but the writer is trying to hold the word "pop-up" until the very end of the sentence, to avoid giving away the joke. I think I would write, "It will be quite interesting reading a former president's pop-up book." Might even make it "United States president," to contrast that stately office with the ridiculous "pop-uo book."

[RonBee]

Your welcome, Delmobile.

Um, didn't you leave something out?

[Casiopea]

...reading a book by a president that's a pop-up. Isn't the author referring to Bill.

[Delmobile]

hee hee hee, a pop-up...

[esltutor]

Um, didn't you leave something out?

Sure did! I guess that's what I get for reading this forum at 1am. I'll leave the error to prove I'm human.

Cheers,
Debra