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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    AK>  I also don't see any evidence indicating Annabel had been   
    AK>  employed in the same capacity, but IMHO also there is no   
    AK>  ground to suggest that a stenographer is as unique position   
    AK>  in a firm as its President.   
      
    AH>  |is in as unique a position   
      
    AK>  Maybe it is better to remove "position"?:   
    AK>  "...but, IMHO, also there is no ground to suggest that a   
    AK>  stenographer is as unique in a firm as its President."   
      
      
             From a stylistic POV, yes.  I added a third "in" to the sentence,   
   and while it's grammatically correct it sounds awkward.  Now I reckon you're   
   trying to prune excess verbiage... just as native speakers do when e.g. they   
   leave out "the" if the definite article is not needed for clarity.   
      
             WRT the meaning of the sentence, I hear what Paul is saying too.  :-)   
      
      
      
    AH>  The rule you cited mentions two important factors... the   
    AH>  uniqueness of the job & the formality of the job description.   
    AH>  In everyday life things may not be quite so simple.  But as   
    AH>  long as you know rules have exceptions I can't think of a   
    AH>  better one. :-))   
      
    AK>  As one Murphy law says, "For every human problem, there is a   
    AK>  neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong." ;-)   
      
      
             Uh-huh.  One of the important lessons I learned from studying math   
   is that an answer which comes easily is probably wrong, and I've said on more   
   than one occasion here that when people oversimplify matters for young   
   children they create difficulties for teachers in the later grades.  The same   
   applies both to English language & literature and to science, in my   
   experience.  I am delighted to work with readers like you who wait patiently   
   while I mull things over.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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