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loppy@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I don't understand what the issue is/could be. "Respectively" is clearly functioning syntactically as an adverb, and the sentence "Bob, Alicia, and Siobhan are a teacher, plumber, and electrician" without the "respectively" is a valid sentence where its two noun phrases happen to be conjunctions of other nouns.

A sentence like "Bob, Alicia, and Siobhan are a teacher, plumber, electrician, and an astronaut, respectively" is equally valid syntactically, it's just invalid semantically.

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