Fix This Sentence!
rogersgeorge on February 8th, 2021
It’s ambiguous.
When the Murrays bought out the Seversons’ interest in the land in 2005, the Severson brothers retained two thirds of the land’s underlying mineral rights.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/11/dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-finally-set-to-reveal-secrets/
- Two thirds of the mineral rights under all the land?
- All the mineral rights under two thirds of the land?
I confess I don’t know how they do these things; the sentence could go either way as far as the sentence structure goes.
What do you think?
Here’s a picture of the fossil that the article is about:
They mentioned that the photo is copyrighted, so I included the link again.
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