Wednesday, March 27, 2019

grammaticality - What is the proper grammatical sentence structure for this Subject, Verb, Object?

A card game has a card with the following text:





Each other player destroys his or her minion with the least power (owner chooses in case of ties).




Am I correct in believing that the Subject, Verb, and Object are as follows?




  • The Subject: Each other player


  • The Verb: destroys


  • The Object: his or her minion





This might give the impression that the player is destroying the minion, when the rules text is supposed to imply that the card the rules text is on is performing the destruction.



What is the proper way to word the sentence, if you want to make it clear that the card with the quoted rules text above is destroying in the card, not any of the players?



(I.e. Would this be better, "Destroy each other player's minion with the least power (owner choses in case of ties)." With no subject, is it clearer that the card is performing the destruction?)



Other examples from the game:





  • Each other player discards two cards at random.


  • Destroy the lowest-power minion on each base with a higher-power minion.


  • You may destroy a minion of power 3 or less on this base.


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