If that sentence is not correct about grammar, please fix it for me
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It's grammatically fine, but requests for proofreading are off-topic. – Mari-Lou A Aug 25 '23 at 11:13
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I won't fix it for you, but will point out what is wrong. – TimR Aug 25 '23 at 11:15
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Does this answer your question? How to combine in a sentence two verb–preposition pairs that have the same object? – Peter Shor Aug 25 '23 at 11:16
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obsessed is complemented by a phrase introduced by with.
loyal is complemented by a phrase introduced by to.
So you cannot combine them as you have done, and then complement the two with a prepositional phrase that is suitable only for one of them.
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Elision, happens all the time. Any references to back up the answer to an off-topic question? – Mari-Lou A Aug 25 '23 at 11:33
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What is off-topic is the request to fix, which I didn't do. It's not elision, but a failure to complement the adjective properly. People say stuff like that, true, but the question doesn't always come down to what is fundamentally grammatical, but to what is expedient in real world contexts. That's the aspect of usage that interests me, how to engineer the utterance so it works better.to – TimR Aug 25 '23 at 11:45
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You proofread it, didn't like it and explained to the OP why it didn't work. – Mari-Lou A Aug 25 '23 at 11:50
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You are using the verb proofread very loosely. I did nothing of the kind. I discussed two adjectives and their differing complements. I read it. – TimR Aug 25 '23 at 11:59