C. Faulkner on the Possessive Antecedent Proscription

[Lesa Dill]

His comment was about this type of construction--

Faulkner's writing style makes him difficult to read.

He claimed that as a reference error.  Is that what you were referring to?

"Bethany K. Dumas" wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Lesa Dill wrote:
>
> >I think I've missed this discussion and have been too quick on the delete.
> >Claude Faulkner taught me grammar during the time of the books' updates.  What
> >was your example sentence?  I remember his teaching me a rule involving that,
> >and I probably can track down his source.
>
> Faulkner has no discussion of the topic - so there are no example
> sentences. What did he teach you about the possessive pronoun antecedent?
>
> Bethany