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You can come up with as many examples as you like, but you are not going to get a universally accepted answer.How about this one - "There were a man and a woman onboard the yacht, who had been on a journey from the Labrador Coast in Canada" (by Aoife Barry)?
No. There's no universally accepted right answer even amongst native speakers.The fact that the above sentence was written by a native speaker of English, apparently an Irish lady, means something, doesn't it?
I'd imagine the following would be universally accepted as right among native speakers. Surely no native speaker would believe that "There's no universally accepted right answer even amongst native speakers.
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