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The other reason before the "and" was that it maximised light reflection (and hence ambient light levels in the room).
by ThePowerOfFuet 6y ago
The other reason before the "and" was that it maximised light reflection (and hence ambient light levels in the room).
- dmurray 6y agoBut that reason is stuck in a descriptive clause modifying "lime-plaster" or "a coating of lime-plaster". You wouldn't write "Walls were sometimes whitewashed with a coating of lime-plaster which was white and because lime kills off bacteria." The longer sentence makes it less jarring until you try to parse it carefully, but still very poor style. I don't think I'm being some kind of prescripivist grammar Nazi here: the rest of the piece is written reasonably professionally and I'm sure the editors would fix that if they spotted it.