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Does adding a preposition and a noun after an object of a comma-separated list of verbs add it to all the verbs or only the last one in the list?

English Language & Usage Asked by Amal K on August 24, 2021

I have a sentence (which I came up with myself):

  • This is a program intended to help users create, simplify and organize learning content into bite-sized chunks.

After taking a second look at it, I realized there are multiple ways to interpret this:

  1. This is what I actually mean:
  • This is a program intended to help users create learning content, simplify learning content and organize learning content into bite-sized chunks.
  1. This is what I think it could also mean but don’t want it to mean so and neither does it make perfect sense:
  • This is a program intended to help users create learning content into bite-sized chunks, simplify learning content into bite-sized chunks and organize learning content into bite-sized chunks.

Should I reframe the sentence as:

This is a program intended to help users create and simplify learning content and organize it into bite-sized chunks.

I would like to know the correct way to interpret the first sentence.

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