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On the Wikipedia page for "Team error", I found this text:

Halo Effect – Immediate judgment discrepancy or cognitive bias, where a person making an initial assessment will assume the validity of ambiguous information based upon concrete information: blind trust in the competence of specific individuals because of their experience or education.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_error

In that, the noun (also the subject of the where clause, I guess) a person is directly followed by a V-ing making. But this is not usual to my eye where I often see an infinitive verb or be + V-ing in stead of a V-ing, so it could have been:

... where a person makes an initial assessment...

Or:

... where a person is making an initial assessment...

So my question is: is that type of grammar construction valid?

tchrist
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    Yes, it's valid. Your first suggestion won't work because "a person" is head of a noun phrase functioning as subject of the "will" verb phrase. "Making an initial ..." is a gerund-participial clause modifying "person". It has the same meaning as the relative clause in "a person [who makes an initial ...]". – BillJ Mar 09 '23 at 08:53
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    Thanks @BillJ, I believe the question is now answered. – Tran Khanh Mar 16 '23 at 07:20

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